CHARTER

charter

(noun) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation

charter

(noun) a contract to hire or lease transportation

lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take

(verb) 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?”

charter

(verb) grant a charter to

rent, hire, charter, lease

(verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

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.

(UK, pejorative, 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

Adjective

charter (not comparable)

Leased or hired.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• charret, chartre, rechart

Proper noun

Charter (plural Charters)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Charter is the 22260^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1158 individuals. Charter is most common among White (87.82%) individuals.

Anagrams

• charret, chartre, rechart

Source: Wiktionary

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Char"ter, n. Etym: [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]

2. An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. 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.

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.

4. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. My mother, Who has a charter to extol her blood, When she does praise me, grieves me. Shak.

5. (Com.)

Definition: 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. 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 Etym: [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.

Char"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chartered; p. pr. & vb. n. Chartering.]

1. To establish by charter.

2. To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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