Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To put too high a price or value on.
Wiktionary
- v. To give a commodity an excessive price.
WordNet 3.0
- v. price excessively high
Examples
“I thought that when these items were in shops the overprice was due because the shops paid the creators a good one, but not.”
“The reality is that corporate agribusiness pockets most of the cash, and any subsidy that does trickle down to genuine family farms just enables them to stay alive to get squeezed harder by the agribusiness oligopolies that overprice their inputs and underprice their outputs.”
The Huffington Post: Ian Fletcher: The Disappointing Economics of Rick Santorum
“Usually at a con, you can avoid having any hotel food, by going out, by ordering in, by going to the consuite .. but here, between the restaurant, the pub, the coffee bar, and the attempt to sell overprice sandwiches between very defined 'lunch' hours, they'll get you one way or another.”
“Zillow recently released a study that showed sellers who purchased after June 2006 are more likely to overprice their homes than those who bought before the market peak.”
“Bankers don't want to overprice deal and loose their investor base but at the same time they don't want to underprice deals and loose their fee-paying issuer clients.”
“Sellers that must come to this market are trying to get as much money as possible to alleviate other debts, so they overprice their homes hoping for the best.”
The Huffington Post: Nick Segal: When Will the Los Angeles Real Estate Market Rebound?
“Bookstores that sell old books for profit tend to overprice their wares, often remaining oblivious to the fact that many 19th and early 20th century books are now available for free either on Google Books or the Internet Archive.”
“Drug companies still use patent rights to overprice their Product; I buy Prilosec OTC for $.70 per pill, instead of patent-protected $3.75 per pill previously.”
Health Care Spending, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Bhojwani himself never denied agreeing to overprice the trucks, but in a letter to the court maintained that his profit from the deal was actually around $25m (£16. 6m), which grew to $43. 9m (£29. 4m) as a result of the way he invested it.”
The Guardian: Jersey court jails former Nigerian dictator's business associate
“Starbucks will still overprice their mediocre coffee and compete against itself by opening the same exact branch across the street.”
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