price gouging

noun

: charging customers too much money

The company has been accused of price gouging.

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Michiganders can file complaints within a range of topics including data breeches, health and travel club memberships, price gouging, grandparent scams and more. —

Eric Guzmán, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2024 Travelers destined for Hawaii's Big Island this holiday season are running into a roadblock before even boarding the plane thanks to a shortage of rental cars on the island – and price gouging of what remains. —

Kait Hanson, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2024 One of Harris’s main economic policy proposals was a ban on price gouging in the grocery sector, which both the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Federal Reserve noted had experienced margin expansion during the postpandemic period. —

Tobias Burns, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2024 Nessel's office has gone after businesses for apparent price gouging before. —

Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for price gouging

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