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price gouging

price gouging noun: the act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at unreasonably high prices. Also the present participle and gerund of price gouge.

Noun

price gouging (usually uncountable, plural price gougings)

  1. (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.

Also used as

price gouging is also the present participle and gerund of price gouge.

Forms of price gouging

pluralprice gougings

Questions about price gouging

What does price gouging mean?
Price gouging means the act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at unreasonably high prices.
What part of speech is price gouging?
Price gouging is a noun.
What is the plural of price gouging?
The plural of price gouging is price gougings.

Words near price gouging in the dictionary

  1. price gouge
  2. price gouged
  3. price gouger
  4. price gougers
  5. price gouges
  6. price gouging
  7. price gougings
  8. price gun
  9. price in
  10. price index
  11. price indexes

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