0 to charge someone either more than the real price or more than the value of the product or service -- （向某人）索价过高；多收（某人）钱
The gift shop in Paris overcharged me (by €10). 这家巴黎的礼品店向我多收了（10欧元）费用。
[ + two objects ] They overcharged her $45. 他们多收了她45美元。
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.
