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price-gouging
Definition
(Noun) Profiteering; over-charging; charging "all the market will bear"Usage: During difficult economic times, some of the local merchants were said to be engaging in serious price-gouging. In some cases, the prices were two or three times the usual, which left many of us scandalized.
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