overcharge

Plural: overcharges

Noun

• a price that is too high
• An excessive load or burden.
• An excessive charge in an account.
• Any amount erroneously charged to a customer above the correct price for a product or service.

Verb

• rip off; ask an unreasonable price
• place too much a load on
• To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
• To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
• To charge (someone) with an inflated number or degree of legal charges (for example, charging them with a more serious crime than was committed); to upcharge.
• To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
• To fill too full; to crowd.
• To exaggerate.

Examples

• to overcharge a description

Synonyms

fleece, gazump, hook, overload, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge

Antonyms

undercharge