surcharge

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.

   • Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
2. 2

   The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy…

   The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.

3. 3

   An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.

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   1. 4

      An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the…

      An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.

   2. 5

      A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.

   3. 6

      A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party

   4. 7

      A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a…

      A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.

   5. 8

      An excessive load or burden.

      • A Numerous Nobility, cauſet Pouerty, and Inconuenience in a State: For it is a Surcharge of Expence;
   6. 9

      The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

   7. 10

      To apply a surcharge.

   8. 11

      To overload

      To overload; to overburden.

      • to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
      • My heauy hart I feare will breake in twaine, Surcharged with a heauie loade of thoughts.
      • Your head reclin’d, (as hiding grief from view,) / Droops, like a Roſe ſurcharg’d with morning Dew.
   9. 12

      To overstock

      To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.

      • Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do.
   10. 13

       To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

       • The Idle multitude surcharge their laies

The neighborhood

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