price gouging

English

Verb

price gouging

  1. present participle of price gouge

Noun

price gouging (usually uncountable, plural price gougings)

  1. (business, economics) 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.

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