different between oppression vs overcharge

English

Etymology

From Middle English oppression, from Old French oppression, from Latin oppressi? (“a pressing down, violence, oppression”), from opprim?; see oppress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p????n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: op?pres?sion

Noun

oppression (countable and uncountable, plural oppressions)

1. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

   • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

2. The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.

3. A feeling of being oppressed.

Related terms

• oppress

Translations

Further reading

• oppression in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• oppression in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin oppressi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.p??.sj??/

Noun

oppression f (plural oppressions)

1. oppression
2. (Louisiana) asthma

Further reading

• “oppression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English overchargen, equivalent to over- +? charge.

Verb

overcharge (third-person singular simple present overcharges, present participle overcharging, simple past and past participle overcharged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
2. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
3. To charge (someone) with an inflated number or degree of legal charges (for example, charging them with a more serious crime than was committed); to upcharge.
   • 2015, Randall G. Shelden, William B. Brown, Karen S. Miller, Randal B. Fritzler, Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society: Second Edition, Waveland Press (?ISBN), page 184:

     The police, fully aware of the reality of plea bargaining, often overcharge (if they don't, then the prosecutor does). The police also may overcharge in order to develop informants.

4. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
   • c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service

     it serves to no better use but only to labour and overcharge the ships' sides in any grown seas and foul weather.

5. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
   • October 22, 1706, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Walsh

     Our language is naturally overcharged with consonants.

6. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.

   to overcharge a description

Antonyms

• undercharge

Translations

Noun

overcharge (plural overcharges)

1. An excessive load or burden.
2. An excessive charge in an account.

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