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How to use overprice in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb

Overprice means to give a commodity an excessive price. Example: “He overpriced the items to ensure they would not sell.”

More sentences with overprice

  • He overpriced the items to ensure they would not sell.From the entry overpriced
  • The overpriced items would not sell.From the entry overpriced
  • It is overpriced, eight dollars without any description except "hot dog." I choose violence.2023, Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, unnumbered pages. From the entry I choose violence
  • The future is more overpriced Pabsts at dive-bar simulacrums.2018, Ling Ma, chapter 1, in Severance, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry simulacrum
  • In Prada he had nudged me discreetly to point out a C-list celebrity contemplating an overpriced pair of slip-ons.2002, Andrea Semple, The Ex-Factor, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry C-list
  • These results were obtained from a zero-cost long–short strategy—that is, going long previously underpriced currency pairs and going short previously overpriced currency pairs.2020, Sinan Krückeberg, Peter Scholz, “Decentralized Efficiency? Arbitrage in Bitcoin Markets”, in Financial Analysts Journal, volume 76…. From the entry cryptoexchange
  • There are two distinct ways in which tied aid can undermine the value of aid to the recipient: overpricing and distorting the nature of aid.1996, Colin H. Kirkpatrick, John Weiss, Cost-benefit Analysis and Project Appraisal in Developing Countries, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry tied
  • Unoriginal, unplayable, overpriced and generally unappealing.1988, Lazer Tag (game review in Your Sinclair issue 32, August 1988). From the entry unplayable
  • He would have met the real estate agents selling overpriced merchandise to underinformed dreamers and heard the agents’ pitch — “Investors like you, sir, are making a fortune.”2009 May 10, “Due Diligence”, in New York Times. From the entry underinformed
  • Jukeboxed music segued easily from lightly bleached, textured jazz to soulful yet not too naughty rhythm and blues, and its cuisine was both tasty and tastefully overpriced.1996, Doris Jean Austin, Martin Simmons, Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience. From the entry jukeboxed

Meaning of overprice

  1. verb To give a commodity an excessive price.

Full definition of overprice

Questions about overprice in a sentence

How do you use overprice in a sentence?
Overprice is used as a verb. For example: “He overpriced the items to ensure they would not sell.”
What is a short sentence with overprice?
“The overpriced items would not sell.”
What does overprice mean?
Overprice means to give a commodity an excessive price.

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