20일차. price-gouging: 바가지요금

• price-gouging [• price gouging] /ˈɡaʊdʒɪŋ/
(usually uncountable, plural price gougings)
-The act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at unreasonably high prices. - 윅셔너리
e.g.) 
Price gouging is widespread.  바가지요금이 만연해 있다. (옥스포드 영한)
The farmers aren't really guilty of price gouging, but they are trying to recoup some of their losses from the flooding earlier this spring.

• price-gouge [• price gouge] /ɡaʊdʒ/
(third-person singular simple present price gouges, present participle price gouging, simple past and past participle price gouged)
-To engage in price gouging. - 윅셔너리
: 바가지요금을 매기다 - 국제영어대학원대학교 신어사전
e.g.)
As demand rose sharply, the seller attempted to price gouge. 
(국제영어대학원대학교 신어사전) 수요가 급등하자, 판매자는 바가지요금을 매기려 했다.

 

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