Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

overcharge

Translate overcharge | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of overcharge

verb


[with object]
  • 1charge (someone) too high a price for goods or a service:send your bill to the Law Society if you think you’ve been overcharged
  • charge someone (a sum) beyond the correct amount: [with two objects]:customers have been overcharged £12 million in the last year
  • 2put too much electric charge into (a battery): large generators can overcharge batteries

noun


  • an excessive charge for goods or a service: an overcharge of £40

overcharge in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of overcharge in the US English dictionary
  |  Cite

Word of the day

secretagogue

/ sɪˈkriːtəgɒg /
noun
a substance which promotes secretion …