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词汇 gouging
释义 gouging
noun
uk /ˈɡaʊ.dʒɪŋ/ us /ˈɡaʊ.dʒɪŋ/

gougingnoun (CHARGING)


[ U ]USinformal
the action of charging someone too much money for something, in a way that is dishonest or unfair: 哄抬价格,暴利收费
price gougingHe has received complaints about price gouging, with some vets charging $50 per dose. 他收到了关于价格暴利的投诉,一些兽医每剂收费50美元。
The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee accused the banks of gouging.参议院银行委员会主席指责银行哄抬价格。
There is a $1,000 penalty for price gouging under Florida law.
The commission voted to extend price caps on wholesale power in an attempt to shield consumers from possible price gouging.
Is there any other industry in the world that would tolerate this gouging of customers?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costing too much
bottomless pit
capital intensive
cheap
cheap at half the priceidiom
cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
cost someone a pretty pennyidiom
cost someone dearidiom
costliness
daylight robbery
dear
exorbitant
gouge
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitive
prohibitively
prohibitory
sight

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Dishonest

gougingnoun (EYE)


[ C or U ]
the action of pushing or cutting into something in a rough or violent way, especially pressing roughly into someone's eyes: 凿;抠(眼);(从洞孔)挖出
eye gougingThis was a vicious type of street fighting in which only biting and eye gouging were forbidden.这是一种除了咬人、挖眼不行其他什么都行的恶毒街头格斗比赛。
The player received a 13-week ban for gouging.
The film contained violent scenes including murders and eye gougings.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cutting and stabbing
abrasion
bayonet
butcher
carve
carving
chisel
chop
impale
impalement
impaler
incise
julienne
score something out/through
shave
shave something off/from something
shear
shearing
sheep shearing
slash
sliced

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Inserting and forcing things into other things

Examples of gouging


gouging
What steps has she taken to ensure that price gouging is avoided?
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One of the most worrying and upsetting elements of the crisis was the way in which some saw the opportunity for price gouging and fraud.
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That is "gouging", to use a vulgar term.
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There are some slight concerns about price gouging.
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They also forbade kicking, biting and eye gouging.
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Carving, rasping, and gouging with hand-tools can create textures or contouring.
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Tenements were also known for their price gouging rent.
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The western side of the lake is deeper than the eastern side, a happenstance of the final glacial gouging.
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Exudates are also obtained by gouging holes in the bark.
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The pattern is created on the printing plate either in engraving by gouging out the dots with a burin, or through an etching process.
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The toothcomb can have other functions, such as food procurement and bark gouging.
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Weeping, he plunged towards the setting sun, gouging out a deep wide trench.
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The only rules for this sport in its origin were no biting and no eye gouging.
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Scientists in fields of research other than offshore engineering have also addressed seabed gouging.
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It crashed through large trees, breaking them off as if they were matchsticks, before impacting the ground violently and gouging a long, wide furrow.
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