Overcharge
[əʊvə'tʃɑːdʒ] or [,ovɚ'tʃɑrdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a price that is too high.
(verb.) rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
Typist: Lolita--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.
(v. t.) To fill too full; to crowd.
(v. t.) To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description.
(v. i.) To make excessive charges.
(n.) An excessive load or burden.
(n.) An excessive charge in an account.
Typed by Larry
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Burden, oppress, surcharge, overload.[2]. Exaggerate, overstate, overstrain, overlay with ornament.
Checked by Dick
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Overload, surfeit,[See CHARGE_and_EXAGGERATE]
Typist: Waldo
Definition
v.t. to load with too great a charge: to charge too great a price.—n. O′vercharge an excessive load or burden: too great a charge as of gunpowder or of price.
Editor: Theresa
Examples
- If his employer is a farmer, the final payment, together with a like overcharge, will fall upon the rent of the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The final payment of both the one and the other falls altogether upon themselves, and always with a considerable overcharge. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The results of the first month's test showed an apparent overcharge by the Edison company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Sloppy they left behind, relieving his overcharged breast with a paroxysm of mangling. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The wits would perform the office of introduction with overcharged pomp and politeness, but they could not easily overstep his sense of its gravity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- My overcharged heart found the same relief, and I cried too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I know not whether Madame had overcharged or under-charged the dose; its result was not that she intended. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If fervent prayers, gushing from hearts overcharged with gratitude, be heard in heaven--and if they be not, what prayers are! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There was no talking back, no dissatisfaction about overcharging, no grumbling about anything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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