charter
English
Alternative forms
- chartre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart.
Noun
charter (plural charters)
- 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.
- The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- A deed (legal contract).
- A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- Shakespeare
- My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me.
- Shakespeare
- (Britain, 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
- 2001 March 23, Clare Dyer "Stolen car ruling 'a thieves' charter'", The Guardian, London:
Descendants
Translations
document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges
document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc
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a contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel
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the temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle
Translations
Verb
charter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)
Translations
grant or establish a charter
See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃaʁ.tɛʁ/
Further reading
- “charter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃarteɾ/, [ˈt͡ʃart̪eɾ]
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