price gouging

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   pricing above the market price when no alternative retailer is available

   Broaderpricing

Questions about price gouging

What does price gouging mean?

price gouging means "pricing above the market price when no alternative retailer is available".

Is price gouging a common word?

price gouging is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.