charter
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- chartre (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: char‧ter
NounEdit
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.
- c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ix]:
- My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me.
- (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:
DescendantsEdit
- → Bulgarian: чартър (čartǎr)
- → Dutch: charter
- → Estonian: tšarter
- → French: charter
- → Italian: charter
- → Japanese: チャーター
- → Polish: czarter
- → Russian: чартер (čarter)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: charter, chárter
- → Swedish: charter
- → Turkish: charter
- → Uzbek: charter
TranslationsEdit
document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges
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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
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AdjectiveEdit
charter (not comparable)
TranslationsEdit
leased or hired
VerbEdit
charter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)
- (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
- (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
- (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.
TranslationsEdit
grant or establish a charter
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English charter.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
charter m (plural charters)
Further readingEdit
- “charter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English charter.
NounEdit
charter m (invariable)
AdjectiveEdit
charter (invariable)
- charter (attributive)
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English charter.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
charter m (plural charteres)