Overcharge

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
2. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
3. 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.
4. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
5. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
6. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
7. An excessive load or burden.
8. An excessive charge in an account.

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.

The police, fully aware of the reality of plea bargaining, often overcharge (if they don't, then the prosecutor does). The police also may overcharge in order to develop informants.

Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure technicalities (and judicial toleration of it) and in prosecutorial overcharging to compensate for past perceived justice failures.

"It's about decades of an office that overcharges and oversentences but keeps getting worse results," Conklin says.

it serves to no better use but only to labour and overcharge the ships' sides in any grown seas and foul weather.

October 22, 1706, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Walsh Our language is naturally overcharged with consonants.

The result is that the veins become overcharged with blood, and we are taught by physiology that wherever there is overcharge of the venous circulation there results supernutrition, and primarily from that there develops new connective tissue.

to overcharge a description

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Word Forms

• overcharges
• overcharging
• overcharged

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