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Definition of Overprice
1. Verb. Price excessively high.
Definition of Overprice
1. Verb. To give a commodity an excessive price. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overprice
1. [v -PRICED, -PRICING, -PRICES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overprice
Literary usage of Overprice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Duties on Metals and Manufactures of Metals by Boies Penrose, John Sharp Williams (1912)
"During the investigation it developed that a further invoice existed, showing an
overprice of some 3 marks per dozen. Tn order to hide that transaction, ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... instead of for ready money : thence loss by the overprice. 4. Omission to
employ it in loan, when received in quantity exceeding the demand for purchase ..."
3. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"own services that leads him to so "load" or overprice anything that comes into
his hands that success is impossible. An enterprise falls into the hands of ..."
4. A Treatise on the American Law of Vendor and Purchaser of Real Property by George William Warvelle (1902)
"... or misrepresentations of material facts, the evidence of overprice or under-price
becomes of great weight, and fully warrants the consideration of a ..."
5. Capital, the State, and Labour: A Global Perspective by Juliet Schor, Jong-Il You (1995)
"... such as the central control overprice setting, will survive in the near future
and the connection between productivity increases and wages at the ..."
6. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"... to overprice. 2. Superabundant ; extraordinary. Acts Ja. II. 8. Oppressive in
operation. Bellend. 4. Excessive In any respect; as In regard to violence ..."
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