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Gold plating may refer to:
- Gilding, various traditional methods of depositing a thin layer of gold on the surface of other materials in goldsmithing, jewellery, furniture etc.
- Gold plating, various methods of depositing a thin layer of gold on the surface of other metals in the modern electronics industry
- Gold-plating (European Union law), the practise of national bodies exceeding the terms of European Union directives when implementing them into national law
- In software engineering, government contracting, or other project management, the adding of unneeded enhancements to a product or service in order to inflate the final cost to its buyer and the associated profit realized by its producer
- The Averch-Johnson effect, the tendency of regulated companies to engage in excessive amounts of capital accumulation in order to expand the volume of their profits, colloquially referred to as gold plating
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