0 past simple and past participle of fleece
1 to take someone's money dishonestly, by charging too much money or by cheating them:
That restaurant really fleeced us!
Petitions from the populace had long served the ruling order by facilitating the sultan's control of intermediaries who fleeced the treasury or damaged cultivation by oppressing the population.
We will not set people up to be fleeced.
So often the victim gets fleeced and the fleecer gets clear away.
They are planning more and more taxes, so the road user will be fleeced, but less and less will be spent on public transport.
However, the taxpayer, who initially paid for the bridge, is being fleeced and is having to pay interest charges on the money provided.
The public are being fleeced every week, being almost bled white and exploited by these people who just want to make vast sums of money.
The phrases ripped off, fleeced, done, overcharged or taken for a ride all mean the same thing: people have not received value for money.
Why should the public be fleeced in that way?
