Usually means: Demanding excessively high prices unfairly.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. overcharge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overcharge: Merriam-Webster
  3. overcharge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overcharge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overcharge: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overcharge: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overcharge, overcharge: Wordnik
  8. overcharge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overcharge: Wiktionary
  10. overcharge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overcharge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overcharge: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overcharge, overcharge: Dictionary.com
  14. overcharge (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Overcharge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overcharge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overcharge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overcharge: Rhymezone
  19. Overcharge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overcharge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overcharge: FreeDictionary.org
  22. overcharge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overcharge: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. overcharge: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. overcharge: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overcharge: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OVERCHARGE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overcharge: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
verb:  (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
verb:  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.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
noun:  An excessive load or burden.
noun:  An excessive charge in an account.
noun:  Any amount erroneously charged to a customer above the correct price for a product or service.

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