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# overcharge

«overcharge» in Mova's school dictionary: **to ask them to pay more money than the correct price** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (overcharge, overcharges, overcharged, overcharging); noun (an overcharge)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (money) To overcharge someone is to ask them to pay more money than the correct price. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/#m1)

2) To overcharge a battery is to put too much electricity into it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In money and maths lessons: check your change and receipt so you are not overcharged. In everyday life: «The shop overcharged us by £2.» In science: overcharging batteries can damage them.

### examples

- The café overcharged us for the drinks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/#x1)
- Check your receipt to make sure you weren't overcharged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/#x2)
- We were overcharged by fifty pence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/#x3)
- The shopkeeper said sorry for overcharging. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/#x4)
- Don't overcharge your tablet battery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/#x5)
- The taxi driver tried to overcharge the tourists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/#x6)

### note

over- + charge. Opposite: undercharge. Maths: overcharged amount = price paid − correct price (e.g. paid £7, correct £5 → overcharged by £2).

### In the corpora

- [Being charged too much is called being overcharged.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overcharge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcharge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.