price gouging
noun
: charging customers too much money
The company has been accused of price gouging.
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But cutting paper work is one thing – removing regulations designed to combat price gouging or make independent assessments of systems during their development stage need to be preserved and strengthened.
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William Hartung, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Still, the opportunity for price gouging or other forms of manipulation are high, said Errol Schweizer, a veteran of the grocery industry who publishes The Checkout Grocery Update, a newsletter.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Other legislation in the reform package includes a bill that would tackle price gouging in the vending machines of CDCR visiting rooms and another that would allow courts to consider sentences other than incarceration in county jails for pregnant and postpartum defendants.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Does $40,000 for a three-day job constitute price gouging?
—Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025
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William Hartung, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Still, the opportunity for price gouging or other forms of manipulation are high, said Errol Schweizer, a veteran of the grocery industry who publishes The Checkout Grocery Update, a newsletter.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Other legislation in the reform package includes a bill that would tackle price gouging in the vending machines of CDCR visiting rooms and another that would allow courts to consider sentences other than incarceration in county jails for pregnant and postpartum defendants.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Does $40,000 for a three-day job constitute price gouging?
—Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for price gouging
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“Price gouging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/price%20gouging. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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