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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
charter
n 1: a document incorporating an institution and specifying its
rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the
certificate of incorporation
2: a contract to hire or lease transportation
v 1: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and
services [syn: rent, hire, charter, lease]
2: grant a charter to
3: engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an
apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we
take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire,
charter, engage, take]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Charter \Char"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chartered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Chartering.]
1. To establish by charter.
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2. To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party,
under Charter, n.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Charter \Char"ter\, n. [OF. chartre, F. chartre, charte, fr. L.
chartula a little paper, dim. of charta. See Chart,
Card.]
1. A written evidence in due form of things done or granted,
contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or
conveyance. [Archaic]
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2. An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a
state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights,
franchises, or privileges.
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The king [John, a.d. 1215], with a facility somewhat
suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was
required of him. This famous deed, commonly called
the "Great Charter," either granted or secured very
important liberties and privileges to every order of
men in the kingdom. --Hume.
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3. An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other
corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also,
an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities
of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a
lodge and defining its powers.
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4. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
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My mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me. --Shak.
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5. (Com.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract,
or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or
let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See
Charter party, below.
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Charter land (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in
socage; bookland.
Charter member, one of the original members of a society or
corporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part
in the first proceedings under it.
Charter party [F. chartre partie, or charte partie, a
divided charter; from the practice of cutting the
instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each
of the contractors] (Com.), a mercantile lease of a
vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a
vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of
the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in
transportation for his own account, either under their
charge or his.
People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), the document which embodied
the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the
English government in 1838.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
CHARTER, mar. contr. An agreement by which a vessel is hired by the owner to
another; as A B chartered the ship Benjamin Franklin to C D.
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Thesaurus Results for Charter:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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