Synonyms for price gouging
price goug·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. price gougingnoun

   pricing above the market price when no alternative retailer is available

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1. • Pricing

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1. President Biden:

   We understand Putin's war against the people of Ukraine is causing prices to rise. We get that. That's self-evident. But it's no excuse to exercise excessive price increases or padding profits or any kind of effort to exploit this situation or American consumers, russia's aggression is costing us all, and it's no time for profiteering or price gouging.

2. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   The outline that we will submit assures a competitive price and prevents the possibility of price gouging, for their part, the private companies need to know that we will not compromise on the rights due to the state from its gas treasures. This is the right and necessary balance that we will advance as quickly as possible.

3. Sean Patrick Maloney:

   That's part of the strategy of the Inflation Reduction Act. And all of these strategies together - together with going after price gouging ,by the way, because these big oil companies are making a fortune off of Putin's war and the rest. We've got to make sure people aren't profiting off the war. All of these strategies together can help bring prices down.

4. Elizabeth Warren:

   This isn’t about inflation. This is about price gouging for these guys. So I get it. When we see prices go up we’re all concerned and the Republicans want to come in and just try to hammer on one theme about this economy but we got to pay attention to the fact that folks like the oil companies say I think it’s just another opportunity to make profits and we need to call them out on that.

5. New York:

   Ayanna Pressley should cancel all of it. The problem is inflation might shoot up because we don't yet have guardrails in place for price gouging.