price gouging

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price gouging

noun price gougings

  1. uncountable, usually The act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at unreasonably high prices. The farmers aren't really guilty of price gouging, but they are trying to recoup some of their losses from the flooding earlier this spring.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of price gouge

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verb act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at unreasonably high prices

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@misc{price_gouging_2026,
  title = {price gouging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/price%20gouging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}