price gouging
noun
: charging customers too much money
The company has been accused of price gouging.
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Companies could also raise prices and just blame it on the tariffs, which corporate critics would call a form of price gouging.
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Tobias Burns, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
Charges of price gouging—originally levelled at industrial farmers—were creeping into the sandwich space.
—H. C. Wilentz, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
That led Newsom to accuse oil companies of price gouging in California.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Such sticker shocks frustrate consumers and raise suspicions of price gouging.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Tobias Burns, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
Charges of price gouging—originally levelled at industrial farmers—were creeping into the sandwich space.
—H. C. Wilentz, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
That led Newsom to accuse oil companies of price gouging in California.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Such sticker shocks frustrate consumers and raise suspicions of price gouging.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for price gouging
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“Price gouging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/price%20gouging. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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