overcharge
/ˈoʊvɚtʃˌɑɹdʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
Example Sentences
- "Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged."
- "Sometimes I get overcharged / That's when you see sparks"
- "The police, fully aware of the reality of plea bargaining, often overcharge (if they don't, then the prosecutor does). The police also may overcharge in order to develop informants."
- "Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure technicalities (and judicial toleration of it) and in prosecutorial overcharging to compensate for past perceived justice failures."
- ""It's about decades of an office that overcharges and oversentences but keeps getting worse results," Conklin says."
- "it serves to no better use but only to labour and overcharge the ships' sides in any grown seas and foul weather."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: overchargen