Overcharge - English meaning

verb

Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage.

Usage examples:

She always cheats at cards

noun

A person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage.

Usage examples:

Athletes who abide by the rules are up against cheats with a distinct advantage.

verb

To act in a way that is dishonest, or to make someone believe something that is not true in order to get something for yourself

Usage examples:

[ t ] the insurance companies were found to be cheating consumers., [ t ] they got cheated out of t…

noun

A flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place.

Usage examples:

He undid two clips and lifted the lid

verb

Fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips.

Usage examples:

She clipped on a pair of diamond earrings

noun

An act of clipping or trimming something.

Usage examples:

I gave him a full clip

verb

Illegally obtain money from (someone) by deception.

Usage examples:

He used a second identity to defraud the bank of thousands of pounds

verb

To take or keep something illegally from someone by deceiving the person

Usage examples:

She is charged with defrauding the internal revenue service.

verb

To take money or goods illegally from someone by deceiving them

Usage examples:

Defraud sb of sth an architect and two surveyors defrauded a charity trust of £3.5m by invoicing it…

verb

Cheat or swindle (someone) so as to deprive them of something.

Usage examples:

He thought he'd been diddled out of his change

verb

To get money from someone in a way that is not honest

Usage examples:

He diddled me! he said that there were six in a bag, but there were only five., i checked the bill …

verb

Perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified).

Usage examples:

Very little work has been done in this field

noun

Used before a verb (except be, can, may, ought, shall, will ) in questions and negative statements.

Usage examples:

Do you have any pets?

noun

Variant spelling of doh1.

noun

The woolly covering of a sheep or goat.

Usage examples:

As the sheep came on board, we grabbed their long shaggy fleeces

verb

Obtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them.

Usage examples:

The city's cab drivers are notorious for fixing fares and fleecing tourists

verb

Make a higher offer for a house than (someone whose offer has already been accepted by the seller) and thus succeed in acquiring the property.

Usage examples:

The trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a property speculator

verb

To refuse to sell a house that you own to someone you have agreed to sell it to, and to sell it instead to someone who offers to pay more for it

Usage examples:

Sally's offer for the house has been accepted, but she's worried she might be gazumped.

verb

Make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as with a sharp tool or blade.

Usage examples:

The channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water

noun

A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery.

Usage examples:

A chisel, two gouges, jewelers' shears, and the plane blade were made in sheffield.

verb

An impression in a surface, as made by a blow

verb

Take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force.

Usage examples:

He tried, with three others, to rob a bank

verb

Take

verb

To take money or property from a person or place illegally

Usage examples:

Two men robbed the store last night., elderly people should not be robbed of their dignity.

noun

A gregarious eurasian crow with black plumage and a bare face, nesting in colonies in treetops.

Usage examples:

Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls…

verb

Defraud, overcharge, or swindle (someone).

Usage examples:

Police files are overflowing with complaints from people who've been rooked

noun

A chess piece, typically with its top in the shape of a battlement, that can move in any direction along a rank or file on which it stands. each player starts the game with two rooks at opposite ends of the first rank.

Usage examples:

With the rise in use of exchange sacrifices, rook versus minor piece endgames are becoming more com…

verb

Move with urgent haste.

Usage examples:

Oliver rushed after her

noun

A sudden quick movement towards something, typically by a number of people.

Usage examples:

There was a rush for the door

noun

An erect, tufted marsh or waterside plant resembling a sedge or grass, with inconspicuous greenish or brownish flowers. widely distributed in temperate areas, some kinds are used for matting, chair seats, and baskets.

Usage examples:

Then the land went down, and there was marsh of rushes and willow and hazel.

noun

A short, slender, sharp-pointed metal pin with a raised helical thread running round it and a slotted head, used to join things together by being rotated so that it pierces wood or other material and is held tightly in place.

Usage examples:

The logs, the wood flooring, the cabinets, all of the materials down to the nails and screws which …

verb

Fasten or tighten with a screw or screws.

Usage examples:

Screw the hinge to your new door

verb

A simple machine with a threaded cylindrical rod and hole

verb

To give someone back less money than they are owed when they are buying something from you

Usage examples:

The check-out girl short-changed her., the case alleges that the company shortchanged female employ…

verb

Make or allow (something) to become thoroughly wet by immersing it in liquid.

Usage examples:

Soak the beans overnight in water

noun

An act of immersing someone or something in liquid for a period of time.

Usage examples:

I'm looking forward to a long soak in the bath

verb

Submerge in a liquid

noun

A small sharp-pointed organ at the end of the abdomen of bees, wasps, ants, and scorpions, capable of inflicting a painful or dangerous wound by injecting poison.

Usage examples:

The poor fellow has neither the tusks of the elephant, nor the claws of the lion, nor even the horn…

verb

Wound or pierce with a sting.

Usage examples:

He was stung by a jellyfish

verb

(esp. of insects, plants, and animals) to produce a small but painful injury by making a very small hole in the skin

Usage examples:

[ i ] why do bees sting?, [ t ] cold air stung jack’s lungs., [ i ] the soap made his eyes sting., …

noun

An additional charge or payment.

Usage examples:

We guarantee that no surcharges will be added to the cost of your holiday

verb

Exact an additional charge or payment from.

Usage examples:

Retailers will be able to surcharge credit-card users

noun

A charge in addition to the usual amount paid for something

Usage examples:

If you order the tickets by mail, there is a $5.00 surcharge.

verb

Use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions.

Usage examples:

A businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds

noun

A fraudulent scheme or action.

Usage examples:

He is mixed up in a £10 million insurance swindle

verb

To cheat or trick someone in order to get money from them

Usage examples:

Swindle sb out of sth a web-based company swindled customers out of $15 million., victims of the sw…