as in to gouge
to charge (someone) too much for goods or services
contends that with the present tax structure, the state's lower-income residents are being surcharged and the wealthiest residents are getting off too lightly
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Recent Examples of surcharge
Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
By comparison, the new single-motor version, which costs 1.4 million lira, only comes with a 10% SCT surcharge that adds just 141,000 lira.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 July 2025
Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
State officials say gas utility customers could see up to a 17% decrease in a pipeline replacement surcharge on their monthly bills because of these changes.
—NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
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Verb
That surcharge alone erodes a meaningful slice of Qatar’s margin advantage over Henry-Hub-linked U.S. cargoes and is already pencilled into 2026 LNG tender models.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
By comparison, the new single-motor version, which costs 1.4 million lira, only comes with a 10% SCT surcharge that adds just 141,000 lira.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 July 2025
Noun
Severin Borenstein, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the former chair of the California Energy Commission’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee, identified the surcharge by analyzing years of gas prices in the state and comparing them to costs in other states.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
State officials say gas utility customers could see up to a 17% decrease in a pipeline replacement surcharge on their monthly bills because of these changes.
—NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surcharge
Verb
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At Dia, the cage has been reconstructed in full, complete with Hsieh’s boots and his tally marks gouged into the wall.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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For example, a rock just 11 pounds (5 kilograms) in mass can gouge a crater more than 30 feet (9 meters) wide and eject over 75 metric tons of lunar soil and rock, according to NASA.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement Disney and her allies want a surtax on incomes over $1 million.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
24 Nov. 2025
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Bay State voters in November 2022 approved a 4% surtax on incomes above $1 million annually, with the revenue dedicated to improving education and transportation.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The December shipment of teak — loaded at a Myanmar port owned by an oligarch with close ties to the military — was Florida Teak’s seventh of Burmese teak last year, bringing the total imported by the company in 2022 to roughly 437,000 pounds, import records analyzed by the Miami Herald show.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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That 5-million-square-foot sorting and handling site temporarily closed midweek due to a cargo plane crash on location, already causing shipment delays ahead of the FAA mandate.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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After the Boynton Beach location changed hands in 2021, the new owners discovered that insurance companies had been billed and over 80 patients had been charged for work that was not performed or overcharged, according to the affidavit, many of them 65 or older.—
Shira Moolten,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2026
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Best Care was previously accused in civil court of fraudulently billing or overcharging the federal government for healthcare services that were never actually performed.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The central bank's economic staff cited fiscal policy, easier financial conditions and a dissipation of the tariff impact as growth drivers through 2028, minutes of the meeting released last week show.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Jan. 2026
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In the United States, consumption tax comes in the form of retail sales tax and excise tax (tax imposed on certain goods or activities, like alcohol or fuel), as well as the aforementioned tariffs.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Protein overload shows up in the feel and behavior of the hair before anything else.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Allure,
31 Dec. 2025
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Consistent practice with progressive overload builds stronger abs, better stability, and a resilient core.—
Jakob Roze,
Health,
31 Dec. 2025
Verb
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But voters who showed up to the polls on Tuesday had a different point of view and delivered stinging defeats to Republicans.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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In February, Vance delivered a stinging message to European allies, saying that the biggest threat to Europe did not come from Russia or China, but from within Europe itself, and that he was concerned Europe was moving toward censorship and away from democracy.—
Hannah Demissie,
ABC News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Those reflections gave emotional ballast to the high-gloss production designed for spectacle on Las Vegas’ most storied stage, which Adele, Cher, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion have graced.—
Melinda Sheckells,
Billboard,
31 Dec. 2025
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Cheaper options or knock-offs tend to come with flimsy sockets, buzzing ballasts, or unreliable switches, which can make rooms look cheap or dated far sooner than expected and even create fire hazards.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Surcharge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surcharge. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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