"price gouging" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: price gougings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} price gouging (usually uncountable, plural price gougings)
  1. (business, economics) The act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at unreasonably high prices. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Business, Economics Related terms: excuseflation, greedflation, profiteering
    Sense id: en-price_gouging-en-noun-DhNf6eh~ Topics: business, economics, science, sciences

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} price gouging
  1. present participle and gerund of price gouge Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: price gouge Categories (topical): Economics
    Sense id: en-price_gouging-en-verb-A1YyY3c8 Disambiguation of Economics: 35 65 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 19 81

Inflected forms

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