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overpricing

overpricing is the present participle and gerund of overprice.

Meaning of overprice

Verb

overprice (third-person singular simple present overprices, present participle overpricing, simple past and past participle overpriced)

  1. to give a commodity an excessive price

Noun

overpricing (usually uncountable, plural overpricings)

  1. (usually) The setting of a price too high.

Forms of overpricing

pluraloverpricings

Questions about overpricing

What does overpricing mean?
Overpricing means the setting of a price too high.
What is overpricing the present participle and gerund of?
Overpricing is the present participle and gerund of overprice.
What part of speech is overpricing?
Overpricing is a noun.
What is the plural of overpricing?
The plural of overpricing is overpricings.

Words near overpricing in the dictionary

  1. overpresumptuous
  2. overprice
  3. overpriced
  4. overpricedness
  5. overprices
  6. overpricing
  7. overpricings
  8. overprime
  9. overprimed
  10. overprimes
  11. overpriming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overpricing (page history and authors); overprice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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