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charter
/ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/
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What does charter mean?
noun
- A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
- A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
- A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
More meanings (9)
noun
- The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- A deed (legal contract).
- A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- (derogatory) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
adjective
- Leased or hired.
verb
- To grant or establish a charter.
- To lease or hire something by charter.
- (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/
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Chauvelin, on the other hand, would post to Dover, charter a vessel there, and undoubtedly reach Calais much about the same time.
I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
More book examples (3)
A charter granted by the State to a company is a contract, and equally binding to the State as to the grantee.
A number of families will charter a vessel amongst them, all bringing their own provisions, which are of the simplest and cheapest kind.
The court had intrusted to him, as burgrave or castellan of Calstein, the custody of the Bohemian crown, and of the national charter.