(v. t.) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.
(v. t.) To fill too full; to crowd.
(v. t.) To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description.
(v. i.) To make excessive charges.
(n.) An excessive load or burden.
(n.) An excessive charge in an account.
Example Sentences:
(1) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(2) Besides these acute injuries chronic injuries of ligaments of the spine and the invertebral discs can occur because every stress overcharging the muscles must be taken up by the ligaments.
(3) The electrocardiogram evidenced sings of coronary failure when all the pulmonary veins of one lung were ligatured, signs of ventricular and atrial overcharge in dogs with ligature of the pulmonary artery and mixed modifications, although less severe, in combined vascular ligatures.
(4) Grayling has said that G4S and Serco have overcharged the government by tens of millions of pounds and the Cabinet Office is now in the process of reviewing 28 government contracts the two companies were involved in, worth £1bn.
(5) However, the justice secretary confirmed that Serco, which was also involved in allegations of overcharging on prisoner escort contracts, has paved the way for it to bid again for fresh government work.
(6) It's good news that the government has managed to claw back £179.5m from Serco and G4S due to the scandal of overcharging for offender tagging.
(7) The private security company offered to repay £24m for overcharging on the electronic monitoring contract but this was rejected by the justice ministry.
(8) Overcharging could explain why a small supplier such as First Utility might be paying less for its wholesale power – on figures known as the weighted average cost of fuel – than the big six.
(9) The result is the likes of G4S overcharging the government by more than £100m.
(10) G4S, the troubled giant private security company, still faces the possibility of criminal proceedings over its alleged overcharging of at least £24m on electronic tagging and prisoner escort contracts, the justice secretary, Chris Grayling , has said.
(11) At the end of 2013, the Serious Fraud Office launched an investigation into Serco and G4S , after they allegedly overcharged the taxpayer tens of millions of pounds for the electronic tagging of clients, charging for clients who had left the country or were even dead.
(12) First, they overcharged me and became very aggressive on extras on invoicing.
(13) Energy regulator Ofgem said on Friday that the “big six” UK suppliers are overcharging “for the vast majority of people”.
(14) In the coming months, a tribunal will hear a £2.6m claim for overcharging alleged by more than 300 leaseholders at the striking St George Wharf development on the river Thames.
(15) The Crown Estate has also been accused of overcharging energy companies for use of the seabed.
(16) The IFG also flags up worries about outsourcing some services given previous failures, such as allegations that security companies had been overcharging for their services in tagging prisoners on probation and the shortcomings of security during the London Olympics which meant the British army was called in to plug the gap.
(17) An alternative option for leaseholders who think they are being overcharged is to take their case to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT), which adjudicates on whether service charges, including insurance costs, are "reasonably incurred".
(18) Others included Sulayman Aziz and Khalid Kadar, who said they were overcharged by their utility companies and needed help from the service to write a letter of complaint, and Laura Amperla, who waited two hours to see an adviser who had helped her get in touch with a former employer to discuss a dispute over unpaid wages.
(19) Security firm G4S has hit back at allegations of contract overcharging, accusing court and prison services of failing to pass on vital information to prevent bills on electronic tagging contracts stacking up.
(20) So have I been overcharged interest on my mortgage?
Overload
Definition:
(v. t.) To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
(n.) An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.
Example Sentences:
(1) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(2) In iron-overloaded patients with primary haemochromatosis, there was inappropriately high uptake of iron by the biopsy specimens.
(3) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
(4) Al hepatocytes overload appeared only in nuclei and not in nuclei and not in lysosomes, contrarily to chronic intoxications.
(5) Fluid overload, which could have been caused by the hyperosmolar properties of dextran, worsened progressively as fluids were drawn from the interstitial space and urine output was reduced.
(6) There were no significant differences between the mean levels of peak blood pressures (systolic, diastolic and mean), degree of fluid overload, and fractional sodium excretion in the 2 groups.
(7) Persisting diastolic dysfunction with a substantial rise in left ventricular filling pressure can be observed during dynamic exercise in postoperative patients with preoperative severe pressure overload hypertrophy.
(8) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
(9) Wilson disease is due to a genetically determined impairment of copper excretion from liver into bile resulting in copper overload of the organism.
(10) There was no change in the sarcolemmal Mg2+ -ATPase of the left or right ventricle for the whole duration (3 to 9 months) of left ventricular pressure overload.
(11) These experimental results demonstrate that aluminium interferes with iron absorption and iron transfer, and suggest that these mechanisms may be responsible for maintaining and even increasing the anaemia observed in aluminium overload.
(12) When a high dose of the complex was administered, an overloading with hemosiderin of macrophages and hepatocytes was noticed.
(13) The subsequent accumulation of Na+ in the cell Na(+)-Ca2+ exchange, which can ultimately result in intracellular Ca2+ overload, contractile dysfunction and damage.
(14) If overloaded, these areas are subject to "cervical cratering," a common prelude to implant failure.
(15) The rationale for the inclusion of Mg in cardioplegic solutions therefore lies not in its cardioplegic properties, but in its ability to influence other cellular events such as the loss of Mg and K and perhaps to counter the detrimental effects of ischemia by antagonizing calcium (Ca) overload.
(16) Cardiac hypertrophy due to a chronic hemodynamic overload is accompanied by isoformic changes of two proteins of the thick filament of the sarcomere, myosin, and creatine phosphokinase.
(17) Age, gender and laboratory markers of iron overload did not differentiate patients with cardiac dysfunction (group 1) from those without cardiac dysfunction (group 2).
(18) Severe overloading can increase microdamage alarmingly, its repair by BMUs too, and can cause woven bone formation, anarchic resorption and a regional acceleratory phenomenon.
(19) Thus, it appears that the increased expression of the regulatory MLC2 gene in SHR atrial cells is a predetermined event, which, most likely, participates in functional adaptation of the myocardium in response to pressure overload and subsequent hypertrophy.
(20) To help resolve the issue of contractile function in volume overload hypertrophy, we examined ventricular function in a recently described model of severe chronic experimental mitral regurgitation.