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Charter

//ˈt͡ʃɑːtə// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Leased or hired. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
  2. 2
    a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation wordnet
  3. 3
    A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
  4. 4
    a contract to hire or lease transportation wordnet
  5. 5
    A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
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  1. 6
    The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
  2. 7
    A deed (legal contract).
  3. 8
    A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

    "My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me."

  4. 9
    a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity UK, derogatory

    "In what Derbyshire police say amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep it."

Verb
  1. 1
    To grant or establish a charter. transitive
  2. 2
    engage for service under a term of contract wordnet
  3. 3
    To lease or hire something by charter. transitive
  4. 4
    grant a charter to wordnet
  5. 5
    (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest. Canada, transitive
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  1. 6
    hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

Etymology 2

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

Etymology 3

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

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