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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑːtə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑɹɾɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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: чартър (čartǎr)
• → Dutch: charter
• → Estonian: tšarter
• → French: charter
• → German: Charta
• → Italian: charter
• → Polish: czarter
• → Russian: чартер (čarter)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: цхартер

  Latin script: charter

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

Translations

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

• Armenian: կանոնադրություն (hy) (kanonadrutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: устав (bg) m (ustav)
• Czech: charta (cs) f
• Finnish: peruskirja
• German: Charta (de) f
• Hindi: चार्टर (hi) m (cārṭar)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: alapító okirat, alapokmány (hu), alapszabály (hu), létesítő okirat
• Portuguese: procuração (pt) f
• Russian: уста́в (ru) m (ustáv), ха́ртия (ru) f (xártija)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt f
• Spanish: carta fundacional f
• Welsh: breinlen f

document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc

• Afrikaans: handves
• Armenian: հրովարտակ (hy) (hrovartak), խարտիա (hy) (xartia)
• Bulgarian: грамота (bg) f (gramota), харта (bg) f (harta)
• Danish: pagt
• Dutch: handvest (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉarto
• Finnish: peruskirja
• French: charte (fr) f
• German: Charta (de) f
• Hindi: चार्टर (hi) m (cārṭar)
• Hungarian: charta (hu)
• Italian: carta (it)
• Latin: carta
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Limburgish: haandvest
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: handvest, haandvest

  German Low German: karta

• Macedonian: повелба f (povelba)
• Norwegian: pakt (no)
• Portuguese: carta (pt) f, alvará (pt) m
• Russian: гра́мота (ru) f (grámota), ха́ртия (ru) f (xártija)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt f
• Thai: กฎบัตร (th) (gòt-bàt)
• Welsh: siarter, breinlen f
• West Frisian: hânfêst

a contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel

• Bulgarian: чартър m (čartǎr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} járatbérlési szerződés
• Russian: ча́ртер (ru) m (čártɛr)

the temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle

• Bulgarian: чартър m (čartǎr)
• Finnish: vuokraus (fi)
• (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
• 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.

Translations

grant or establish a charter

• (deprecated template usage) French: affretter (2)
• (deprecated template usage) Polish: czarterować (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}}
• Portuguese: fretar (pt)

See also

• charter school

Anagrams

• charret, chartre, rechart

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.tɛʁ/

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.

Noun

charter m (uncountable)

1. Charter plane or flight

Adjective

charter (invariable)

1. charter (attributive)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

charter m (plural charteres)

1. A shuttlebus