surcharge

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From sur- +‎ charge

Noun [edit]

surcharge (plural surcharges)

  1. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
    Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
  2. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
  3. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
  4. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
  5. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
  6. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
    • Francis Bacon
      A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.
  7. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

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Verb [edit]

surcharge (third-person singular simple present surcharges, present participle surcharging, simple past and past participle surcharged)

  1. To apply a surcharge.

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Verb [edit]

surcharge

  1. first-person singular present indicative of surcharger
  2. third-person singular present indicative of surcharger
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of surcharger
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of surcharger
  5. second-person singular imperative of surcharger