charter

See also: Charter and chárter

English

Alternative forms

• chartre (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/

  • Audio (UK):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: char‧ter

Noun

charter (plural charters)

1. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
2. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
3. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
4. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
5. A deed (legal contract).
6. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ix]:

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

7. (UK, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
   • 2001 March 23, Clare Dyer "Stolen car ruling 'a thieves' charter'", The Guardian, London:

     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.

   • 2005 November 30, Stephen Foley "The market where 'caveat emptor' has become a charter for fraud" The Independent, London

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: ча́ртър (čártǎr)
• → Dutch: charter
• → Estonian: tšarter
• → French: charter
• → Italian: charter
• → Japanese: チャーター (chātā)
• → Polish: czarter
• → Romanian: charter
• → Russian: ча́ртер (čártɛr)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ча̏ртер

  Latin script: čȁrter

• → Spanish: charter, chárter
• → Swedish: charter
• → Turkish: charter
• → Uzbek: charter
• → Welsh: siarter

Translations

document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges

• Arabic: مِيثَاق m (mīṯāq)
• Armenian: կանոնադրություն (hy) (kanonadrutʻyun)
• Belarusian: стату́т m (statút), ха́ртыя f (xártyja)
• Bulgarian: у́став (bg) m (ústav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特許狀／特许状 (zh), 特许状 (zh) (tèxǔzhuàng), 憲章／宪章 (zh) (xiànzhāng), 宪章 (zh) (xiànzhāng)

• Czech: charta (cs) f
• Dutch: charter (nl), handvest (nl) n
• Finnish: peruskirja (fi)
• French: charte (fr) f
• Georgian: ქარტია (karṭia)
• German: Charta (de) f
• Hindi: चार्टर (hi) m (cārṭar)
• Hungarian: alapító okirat, alapokmány (hu), alapszabály (hu), létesítő okirat
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: carta (it)
• Japanese: 憲章 (ja) (けんしょう, kenshō)
• Korean: 헌장(憲章) (ko) (heonjang)
• Malay: piagam
• Maori: tūtohinga
• Persian: منشور (fa) (manšur)
• Polish: statut (pl) m, karta (pl) f
• Portuguese: procuração (pt) f
• Russian: уста́в (ru) m (ustáv), ха́ртия (ru) f (xártija)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt f
• Slovak: charta f
• Slovene: ustanovna listina f
• Spanish: carta fundacional f
• Tatar: низам (nizam)
• Ukrainian: стату́т m (statút), ха́ртія (uk) f (xártija)
• Vietnamese: hiến chương (vi)
• Welsh: breinlen f

document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc

• Afrikaans: handves
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հրովարտակ (hy) (hrovartak), խարտիա (hy) (xartia)
• Belarusian: гра́мата f (hrámata), ха́ртыя f (xártyja)
• Bulgarian: грамота́ (bg) f (gramotá), ха́рта (bg) f (hárta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憲章／宪章 (zh) (xiànzhāng), 宪章 (zh) (xiànzhāng)

• Czech: charta (cs) f
• Danish: pagt c
• Dutch: handvest (nl), charter (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉarto
• Finnish: peruskirja (fi)
• French: charte (fr) f
• Georgian: ქარტია (karṭia)
• German: Charta (de) f
• Hindi: चार्टर (hi) m (cārṭar)
• Hungarian: charta (hu)
• Italian: carta (it)
• Japanese: 憲章 (ja) (けんしょう, kenshō)
• Korean: 헌장(憲章) (ko) (heonjang)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: carta
• Limburgish: haandvest
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: handvest, haandvest

  German Low German: karta

• Macedonian: повелба f (povelba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pakt (no) m or f

• Persian: منشور (fa) (manšur)
• Portuguese: carta (pt) f, alvará (pt) m
• Russian: гра́мота (ru) f (grámota), ха́ртия (ru) f (xártija)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гра̀мата f, по̀веља f

  Roman: gràmata (sh) f, pòvelja (sh) f

• Slovak: charta f
• Thai: กฎบัตร (th) (gòt-bàt)
• Ukrainian: гра́мота (uk) f (hrámota), ха́ртія (uk) f (xártija)
• Welsh: siarter, breinlen f
• West Frisian: hânfêst

a contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel

• Belarusian: ча́ртэр m (čárter)
• Bulgarian: ча́ртър m (čártǎr)
• Czech: charter m
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} járatbérlési szerződés
• Japanese: チャーター (chātā)
• Korean: 차터 (chateo), 전세(專貰) (ko) (jeonse)
• Persian: چارتر (čârtar)
• Polish: czarter m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: ча́ртер (ru) m (čártɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ча̏ртер m

  Roman: čȁrter (sh) m

• Slovak: charter m
• Slovene: čarter m
• Ukrainian: ча́ртер m (čárter)

the temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle

• Bulgarian: ча́ртър m (čártǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包租 (zh) (bāozū)

• Finnish: vuokraus (fi)
• Galician: frete m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: bérelt járat, ^{(please verify)} járatbérlés, ^{(please verify)} járat bérlése, ^{(please verify)} járat kibérlése, ^{(please verify)} járat bérbevétele, ^{(please verify)} járat bérbeadása
• Japanese: チャーター (chātā)
• Portuguese: frete (pt) m
• Russian: наём (ru) m (najóm), ча́ртер (ru) m (čártɛr)
• Spanish: fletamento m, flete (es) m, alquilado (es) m

Adjective

charter (not comparable)

1. Leased or hired.

Translations

leased or hired

• Hindi: चार्टर्ड (cārṭarḍ)
• Hungarian: bérelt (hu), charter- (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: ча́ртерный (ru) (čártɛrnyj) (of ships or planes)

Verb

charter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)

1. (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
2. (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
3. (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

Translations

grant or establish a charter

• French: ^{(please verify)} affretter (2)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: (mainly boats) navlosi (ro), afreta (ro)

to lease or hire something by charter

• Catalan: noliejar (ca)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: sewa (ms)
• Portuguese: fretar (pt)

See also

• charter school

Anagrams

• charret, chartre, rechart

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter. Doublet of charte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.tɛʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

charter m (plural charters)

1. a charter flight
2. a charter plane
3. a charter pilot

Further reading

• “charter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• châtrer

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃar.ter/
• Rhymes: -arter

Noun

charter m (invariable)

1. charter plane or flight

Adjective

charter (invariable)

1. (relational) charter

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Middle English

Noun

charter

1. Alternative form of chartre

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English charter.

Noun

charter n (plural chartere)

1. (transport) charter

Declension

Declension of charter

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) charter	charterul	(niște) chartere	charterele
genitive/dative	(unui) charter	charterului	(unor) chartere	charterelor
vocative	charterule		charterelor

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾteɾ/ [ˈt͡ʃaɾ.t̪eɾ]

Noun

charter m (plural charteres)

1. a shuttlebus

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Swedish

Etymology

From English charter.

Noun

charter c

1. charter trip

   Vi ska åka på charter!

   We're going on a charter trip!

   Synonym: charterresa

Declension

Declension of charter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	charter	charters
	definite	chartern	charterns
plural	indefinite	chartrar	chartrars
	definite	chartrarna	chartrarnas

Derived terms

• charterbåt
• charterflyg
• charterplan
• charterturism
• charterturist
• chartra