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Definition of "overcharge" []
- To charge (a party) an excessive price for something. (verb-transitive)
- To fill too full; overload. (verb-transitive)
- To overstate or exaggerate. (verb-transitive)
- To charge too much. (verb-intransitive)
- An excessive charge or price. (noun)
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Use "overcharge" in a sentence
- "Thus, the English word "overcharge" may mean many things to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but they are all translated into Russian by completely different words that are not interchangeable."
- "I much rather take the kind of overcharge this bundler is accused of doing then the kind of 'overcharge' i'm currently seeing at my local pump."
- "A NEWSWEEK Poll found that 48 percent would be more likely to buy CDs than download if discs were a third less expensive (70 percent of people under 40 think the record labels overcharge)."
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