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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abusive prices" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe prices that are excessively high or exploitative, often in the context of unfair market practices.
Example: "The company was criticized for charging abusive prices for essential medications, making them unaffordable for many patients."
Alternatives: "exorbitant prices" or "outrageous prices".
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On May 28th the drug inspired a coalition ranging from doctors to trade unionists to launch a campaign against "unsustainable and abusive" prices.
Mr. Serra said that the government invoked an article in the Constitution that allows for the breaking of a patent in cases of abusive prices.
The market is off to a stronger-than-expected start largely as a result of public outrage after a congressional investigation in July concluded that a number of local and multinational drug companies were taking advantage of a noncompetitive market to charge abusive prices in the absence of federal monitoring.
Not that commentators think the cost of hotel rooms in Rio will do anything but soar during the World Cup and Olympics, despite threats by the government to clamp down on "abusive" prices.
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In a confidential document sent to RWE lawyers in December 2006, that agency accused RWE of "abusive pricing," piling on costs for industrial clients that were "completely out of proportion" to the company's economic burden, according to the document, which was obtained by The New York Times.
Yet civil society generally rejects any practices that resemble the establishments of cartels, such as limiting market competition, abusive pricing and blocking fair opportunities for newcomers.
The subprime finance industry was a hot ticket in the early 1990s, until it abruptly collapsed amid a wave of bankruptcies, as well as charges of accounting irregularities and abusive pricing practices.
However, Professor David Larcker, one of the conference organizers, reminded the panelists that since 1997, there has existed a body of academic literature showing opportunistic and thus potentially abusive pricing of options, Ciesielski says.
"The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) today released a study that estimates that large incumbent telephone companies have engaged in abusive pricing practices for high-speed broadband "special access" services, with overcharges totaling about $75 billion over just the past five years.
"Consumer Federation of America (CFA) estimates that large incumbent telephone companies have engaged in abusive pricing practices for high-speed broadband "special access" services, with overcharges totaling about $75 billion over just the past five years.
"Consumer Federation of America (CFA) today released a study that estimates that large incumbent telephone companies have engaged in abusive pricing practices for high-speed broadband "special access" services, with overcharges totaling about $75 billion over just the past five years.
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