The word "overcharge" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a verb to mean to "charge too much for something" or as a noun to refer to "an excessive fee for something". Example sentence: The hotel overcharged us for the room, so we decided to look for a more reasonably priced place to stay.
It is simply not acceptable for suppliers to overcharge people on top of the extortionate bills they are already paying.
I had to rebuild the engineering capability of the Brazilian army, so that when businesses start trying to overcharge or create confusion in tendering, I could deploy the army to do the work.
When Mr Bush came to office, the federal government projected a decade of huge surpluses ($5.6 trillion in all), so the president's call for giving people back some of their "overcharge" seemed to make perfect sense.
Mr Bush merrily changed his rationale for his tax cuts when the economy tanked from returning the "overcharge" back to the people to putting spending power back into people's pockets in order to boost growth.
Conventional theory had always argued that monopolies overcharge, underproduce and extract surplus profits.
Technology buyers, with today's tight budgets, want systems that do not overcharge for storing all the junk.EMC's answer is "Information Lifecycle Management", or ILM.
The GCC authorities have tried such measures, including a cap on cement prices in the UAE to help the construction industry or threatening fines on retailers that overcharge, but these measures are piecemeal and, so far, have not had a noticeable impact.
But a compromise may be possible in Barcelona, whereby France would agree to open up its market for business users of electricity, while allowing EDF to continue to overcharge householders.
But in telecoms, the lost benefits were worth up to 442 billion yuan from 2003 to 2010.Just as China's state-owned firms overcharge their customers, its state-owned banks underpay their depositors.
If so, it may allow the big brands to overcharge, pushing merchants' profits down and consumer prices up.
This gives prosecutors more room for interpretation and encourages them to overcharge defendants in order to bully them into plea deals, says Harvey Silverglate, a defence lawyer.
