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Definition of "overprice" []

  • To put too high a price or value on. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "overprice" in a sentence
  • "I thought that when these items were in shops the overprice was due because the shops paid the creators a good one, but not."
  • "The reality is that corporate agribusiness pockets most of the cash, and any subsidy that does trickle down to genuine family farms just enables them to stay alive to get squeezed harder by the agribusiness oligopolies that overprice their inputs and underprice their outputs."
  • "Usually at a con, you can avoid having any hotel food, by going out, by ordering in, by going to the consuite .. but here, between the restaurant, the pub, the coffee bar, and the attempt to sell overprice sandwiches between very defined 'lunch' hours, they'll get you one way or another."