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Definition of Overprices
1. overprice [v] - See also: overprice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overprices
Literary usage of Overprices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... to your Majesties subjects better then the Summe of 135000. pound, omitting
to reckon the overprices which were made and gotten by the sale thereof in ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... the Summe of 135000. pound, omitting to reckon the overprices which were made
and gotten by the sale thereof in ..."
3. The Essence of Stigler by George Joseph Stigler, Kurt R. Leube, Thomas Gale Moore (1986)
"This law overprices young, untrained, inexperienced, and handicapped workers,
pushing them into uncovered occupations, unemployment, or withdrawal from the ..."
4. Public and Private Economy by Theodore Sedgwick (1838)
"To this let there be added, the power which the common people have overprices in
things that have respect to their common ways of living, which I shall ..."
5. Bound for Good Health: A Collection of Age Pages (1993)
"Key findings of the report indicate, on average, Unicor overprices contracts by
15%. The Federal Government deserves to get the best product it can, ..."
6. Bond Market Development in Asia by OECD Staff, Oecd, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2001)
"... participants can initiate paired transactions by selling high and then buying
low and be economically motivated to correct overprices of securities. ..."
7. The Mexican Guide by Thomas Allibone Janvier (1898)
"... in and near the streets of the Flamencos, Bajos de Porta Coeli and Puente de
Jesus—the battling overprices always is fierce and prolonged. ..."
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