price gouging

noun

: charging customers too much money

The company has been accused of price gouging.

Examples of price gouging in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At the very least, the bereaved deserve peace from price gouging. —Nick Rockel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024

Green has also implemented emergency declarations to restrict price gouging on necessities, including rent, food and water, as Lopez investigated dozens of reports of rent hikes and evictions following the tragedy. —Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024

The only authorities on the streets these days are Gaza’s economy ministry monitors, dressed in black civilian clothes, who occasionally inspect markets in Rafah and Deir al-Balah to try to stamp out price gouging by pressuring vendors to sell their goods at normal prices. —Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024

Some Democratic economists, including veterans of previous administrations, like Harvard’s Jason Furman, have rejected claims that price gouging was to blame for inflation. —Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024

Under the state of emergency, consumers can report price gouging to the state Attorney General. —Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 15 Jan. 2024

House Bill 1014 tackles price gouging for baby formula. —Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2024

Democrats have decried the price gouging by some institutions with little to show for students. —Michael B. Horn, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024

The poll follows President Joe Biden’s efforts to highlight price gouging — particularly among the pharmaceutical industry — as a contributing factor to inflation. —Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024