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单词 overpriced
释义
overpriced
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈpraɪst/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈpraɪst/
tooexpensive:
过于昂贵的；价格太高的
Theseshoesare verynice, but they're really overpriced.这些鞋子很漂亮，但价格高得吓人。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
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.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Costing too much
  • a bottomless pitidiom
  • bottomless
  • capital intensive
  • cheap
  • cheap at half the priceidiom
  • cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
  • costsomeonea pretty pennyidiom
  • costsomeonedearidiom
  • daylight robbery
  • dear
  • exorbitant
  • gouge
  • non-competitive
  • outprice
  • overcharge
  • pretty
  • price fixing
  • pricesomeoneout
  • priceyourselfout of the marketidiom
  • sight
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(Definition ofoverpricedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

overpriced| American Dictionary

overpriced
adjective
us
/ˌoʊ·vərˈprɑɪst/
offeredforsaleat too high aprice:
Ithinkthesecoatsare overpriced.
(Definition ofoverpricedfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

overpriced| Business English

overpriced
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊvəˈpraɪst/us
if something is overpriced, itcostsmore than it isworth:
Theseshoesare verynice, but they'reterriblyoverpriced.
Most of thesestocksare way overpricedrelativetotheirexpectedearnings.
overpriced acquisitions/commodities/housing
Compare
underpriced
(Definition ofoverpricedfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverpriced

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Instead, it is underedited andoverpriced: the publishers missed a golden opportunity.
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Of course, providers are inclined to overuseoverpricedservices.
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Travel operators warned that it wasoverpriced, and that the organizers had oversold what the theme park had to offer.
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He suggested the abandonment of the franc zone's closed economic system, with itsoverpricedimports and exports, and the reform of overseas taxation policy.
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The above policies lead to the distortion of prices in health care, in whichoverpricedservices and underpriced services coexist.
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What little food stocked the shelves wasoverpricedand fly-infested.
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Why coal, like food, should have been underpriced in poorer countries andoverpricedin coal-importing richer countries, and why those policies are now beginning to be reformed, are important questions.
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The series is useful, althoughoverpriced.
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Further, some suspected that organic food wasoverpriceddue to unscrupulous middlemen.
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For business sectors operating on margins of 10 per cent, anoverpricedpound has virtually wiped out profits, forcing some to quit foreign markets altogether.
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When they are about and can sell anoverpricedcar to somebody, how easy it is for the total sum of debt to be above £250.
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For too long we have entertained nonsense about absurd encouragement ofoverpricedhousing.
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They see it in the overcrowded, filthy,overpricedand unreliable tube trains that make a nightmare of their daily trip to and from work.
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It is overhyped,overpriced, overrated and it is underperforming.
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Generally speaking, it is not true that our goods areoverpricedin foreign markets.
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