| 词汇 | overpriced |
| 释义 | overpriced adjective uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈpraɪst/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈpraɪst/ too expensive: 过于昂贵的;价格太高的 These shoes are very nice, but they're really overpriced.这些鞋子很漂亮，但价格高得吓人。 costing a lot of money expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes. dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket. costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery. priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey. exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town. 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 outprice overcharge pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitively sight overpriced | American Dictionaryoverpriced adjective us/ˌoʊ·vərˈprɑɪst/ offered for sale at too high a price: I think these coats are overpriced. overpriced | Business Englishoverpriced adjective uk /ˌəʊvəˈpraɪst/us if something is overpriced, it costs more than it is worth: These shoes are very nice, but they're terribly overpriced. Most of these stocks are way overpriced relative to their expected earnings. overpriced acquisitions/commodities/housing Compare underpriced Examples of overpricedoverpriced Instead, it is underedited and overpriced: the publishers missed a golden opportunity. Of course, providers are inclined to overuse overpriced services. Travel operators warned that it was overpriced, and that the organizers had oversold what the theme park had to offer. He suggested the abandonment of the franc zone's closed economic system, with its overpriced imports and exports, and the reform of overseas taxation policy. The above policies lead to the distortion of prices in health care, in which overpriced services and underpriced services coexist. What little food stocked the shelves was overpriced and fly-infested. Why coal, like food, should have been underpriced in poorer countries and overpriced in coal-importing richer countries, and why those policies are now beginning to be reformed, are important questions. The series is useful, although overpriced. Further, some suspected that organic food was overpriced due to unscrupulous middlemen. For business sectors operating on margins of 10 per cent, an overpriced pound has virtually wiped out profits, forcing some to quit foreign markets altogether. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When they are about and can sell an overpriced car to somebody, how easy it is for the total sum of debt to be above £250. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For too long we have entertained nonsense about absurd encouragement of overpriced housing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They see it in the overcrowded, filthy, overpriced and unreliable tube trains that make a nightmare of their daily trip to and from work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is overhyped, overpriced, overrated and it is underperforming. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Generally speaking, it is not true that our goods are overpriced in foreign markets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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