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Surcharge
//ˈsɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒ// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
"Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge."
- 2 an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) wordnet
- 3 The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
- 4 An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
- 5 An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
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- 6 A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
- 7 A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
- 8 A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
- 9 An excessive load or burden. obsolete
"A Numerous Nobility, cauſet Pouerty, and Inconuenience in a State: For it is a Surcharge of Expence;"
- 10 The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to. obsolete
Verb
- 1 To apply a surcharge.
- 2 show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given wordnet
- 3 To overload; to overburden.
"to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon"
- 4 place too much a load on wordnet
- 5 To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
"Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do."
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- 6 fill to an excessive degree wordnet
- 7 To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
"The Idle multitude surcharge their laies"
- 8 print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote wordnet
- 9 fill to capacity with people wordnet
- 10 rip off; ask an unreasonable price wordnet
- 11 charge an extra fee, as for a special service wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle French surcharge, from Old French. By surface analysis, sur- + charge. Doublet of supercharge.
Etymology 2
From Middle French surcharge, from Old French. By surface analysis, sur- + charge. Doublet of supercharge.
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