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as in to gouge
to charge (someone) too much for goods or services I think that store may have overcharged us for the shoes, which were supposed to be on sale

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as in to load
to fill or load to excess overcharged his thesis with long, fancy words

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overcharge

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Recent Examples of overcharge
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The ride-hailing company Lyft accused San Francisco of overcharging it $100 million in taxes over the last five years in a lawsuit filed last week. Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024 Just last month, state consumer protection officials said Metro Market and Pick ‘n Save stores were overcharging customers in this manner throughout Wisconsin. Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024 The settlement was a result of a long-running antitrust case in which the two credit card network giants allegedly overcharged merchants by exacting excessive interchange fees, also called swipe fees. Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 Their lawyers are now arguing that they and their peers were overcharged more than $685 million in an alleged conspiracy. Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for overcharge 
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Verb
  • Some argued that banks engaged in practices that gouged consumers, caused overdraft fees to snowball, discouraged some people from keeping money in a bank and caused others to see their bank accounts closed.
    Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Big-play problems Jacksonville’s defense has been gouged by big plays, most of them through the air.
    Dan Gelston, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2024
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  • The pyrotechnics team loads enough fireworks to celebrate five or six touchdowns per game, said Vaill.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Already, around 890 unique tankers loaded Russian oil — comprising both crude and oil products — in the past six months, analytics firm Vortexa told CNBC on Jan. 7, with 107 of these ships — or 12% of the total — being subject to vessel-specific sanctions at the time.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The multimedia digital platform The New Indian said a salvo launch is designed to overwhelm enemy defenses, ensuring higher mission success rates.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Witty also cited several challenges in 2024, including the Biden administration’s Medicare rate cuts, reductions in Medicaid enrollment and a massive cyber attack that hit its Change Healthcare unit early last year.
    Tami Luhby, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • One day later Miami would kick off its plans for 2025 right by landing former Georgia starting quarterback Carson Beck in the transfer portal (more on that in a bit), but, still, this Orange Bowl had to sting Cristobal over all that might have been.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
  • That loss hurt, of course, and losing the Super Bowl this time around would sting, too.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The former president rattled financial markets and key U.S. trading partners throughout his first term with his tariff agenda.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
  • More politics news → Do Americans support imposing tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada?
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2025
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  • The carriers could then surcharge their residential and commercial customers for half of what they are assessed.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • On Disney, room service is mostly free all day and night, while on Royal Caribbean, only continental breakfast is included in the fare (hot breakfasts and other meal periods are surcharged), for example.
    Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2024
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  • This imbalance can erode the sense of equality and mutual respect that healthy relationships rely on, leaving one partner overburdened and the other disconnected.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The following year saw a 48.5% drop, likely due to the tendency to avoid medical care to not overburden medical providers or risk getting sick during the Covid-19 pandemic, Whitlock said.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Tickets are $200 per person, plus 20 percent service charge and $5 order fee.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • At the same time, the practice of adding service charges to restaurant checks has grown in Southern California and across the nation in recent years, giving rise to a debate about how the fees should be treated by customers and workers.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024

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