Какво означава overcharge на английски?

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overcharge Значение & определение

0 to charge someone either more than the real price or more than the value of the product or service:
- The gift shop in Paris overcharged me (by €10).
- [ + two objects ] They overcharged her $45.
1 to ask someone to pay more than the real price or value of a product or service:
- The company denied it was using its dominant position in the market to overcharge customers.
- overcharge sb (by) $10/10% etc. The shop overcharged me by €5.
- Banks are able to overcharge because they have complicated tariffs that are difficult to understand.
- overcharge for sth Some landlords habitually overcharge for insurance, building repairs, and services.
2 a request for payment that is more than the real price or value of a product or service:
- They billed twice for internet services in the same year, resulting in an overcharge of $123,000.
- He disputed what he believed was a $10 overcharge on a car rental.

Little space was left to overcharge the labourers on their travel costs or to withhold money due to them.
Improper assessments led to overcharging and extortion/exploitation by local governments.
Colonial officials believed that the method of collection was inefficient and that the tax records were inaccurate, overcharging some but, more importantly, missing many.
He also enclosed a pond, to which every commoner required access, and overcharged the commons with cattle, sheep and swine (the last of which were not usually commonable beasts).
One scheme had as a result found itself with a group of highly vocal tenants who thought they were being overcharged for care and were refusing to pay.
Those spoils—that loot—is being extracted from the sick by overcharging, in half of all cases, for the medicines sold.
Over the past three years, validation of invoices has revealed that £1,686.06 had been overcharged out of a total bill of some £20 million.
The phrases ripped off, fleeced, done, overcharged or taken for a ride all mean the same thing: people have not received value for money.