inflated price

  • 1inflated — in‧flat‧ed [ɪnˈfleɪtd] adjective [only before a noun] inflated prices, sums etc are unreasonably high: • These company directors are paid grossly inflated salaries. * * * inflated UK US /ɪnˈfleɪtɪd/ adjective ► an inflated price or value is… …

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  • 2Price discrimination — or price differentiation[1] exists when sales of identical goods or services are transacted at different prices from the same provider.[2] In a theoretical market with perfect information, perfect substitutes, and no transaction costs or… …

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  • 3price — I n. 1) to fix, set a price 2) to hike (AE; colloq.), increase, mark up, raise prices 3) to freeze; hold down, keep down; maintain prices 4) to pay a price 5) to place, put a price on smt.; to quote a price 6) bring, command, fetch, get a price… …

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  • 4price — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ exorbitant, high, inflated, prohibitive, steep ▪ They charge exorbitant prices for their goods. ▪ The price of fuel is prohibitive …

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  • 5inflated — adj. 1 expanded ADVERB ▪ fully ▪ partially PREPOSITION ▪ with ▪ The balloon was kept fully inflated with hydrogen. 2 exaggerated …

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  • 6inflated — in flat·ed || ɪn fleɪtɪd adj. swollen; filled with air or gas; expanded, enlarged; exaggerated; puffed up with pride; bombastic in·flate || ɪn fleɪt v. expand; widen; fill with air or gas; swell; increase; cause inflation, raise price …

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  • 7DRAM price fixing — In 2002, the United States Department of Justice, under the Sherman Antitrust Act, began a probe into the activities of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) manufacturers.[citation needed] US computer makers, including Dell and Gateway, claimed… …

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  • 8Japanese asset price bubble — The nihongo|Japanese asset price bubble|バブル景気|baburu keiki|lit. bubble economy was an economic bubble in Japan from 1986 to 1990, in which real estate and stock prices greatly inflated. The bubble s collapse lasted for more than a decade with… …

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  • 9United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 10CONSUMER PROTECTION — is a new area of law; hence, the term does not appear in classical sources of Jewish law. The meaning of the concept is implied in the term itself: our generation is one of abundance, with great demands, numerous consumers, and extensive… …

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