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- verb To
bill an excessive amount, particularly an amount greater than one is legally entitled to.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You point to a few outliers who may fraudulently overbill.
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Western companies also complain that Russian customs overbill them on tariffs.
Russia's Membership in World Trade Group Faces Hurdles John W. Miller 2011
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Just think, father, Halliburton and its subsidiaries are allowed to fraudulently overbill the US Army for shoddy work in IRAQ How many soldiers were electrocuted in their poorly constructed showers? and we just pay the bills.
Confessions of a Politician Paul Steven Stone 2011
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Did anyone else get a letter about a PGE Trojan overbill from 2000?
PGE steps up to help with energy bills (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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If I ever tried to overbill my patients, they would notice and fire me.
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What you are saying is: Get ready for hospitals, physicians, and companies selling medical supplies to overcharge and overbill.
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I'm writing - I wrote recently an article that's going to appear on The Times on business travel fraud, people who overbill their expense accounts.
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The Defense Department's inspector general said it found that a Boeing Co. pension-accounting snafu led the company to inadvertently overbill the government $1.9 billion to recoup costs on certain weapons programs.
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Dr. Paul wants to remove the incentives for hospitals to overbill us.
Endorsing Ron Paul, and Why Progressive Dems Should Support Ron Paul 2007
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Supporters called the arrest a palace coup, until evidence emerged that he was colluding with dealers by having them exorbitantly overbill him.
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