charter

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English

Alternative forms

• chartre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: char‧ter

Noun

charter (plural charters)

1. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
2. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
3. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
4. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
5. A deed (legal contract).
6. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
7. (UK, 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

Synonyms

• (signed document): chirograph (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: ча́ртър (čártǎr)
• → Dutch: charter
• → Estonian: tšarter
• → French: charter
• → Italian: charter
• → Japanese: チャーター (chātā)
• → Polish: czarter
• → Romanian: charter
• → Russian: ча́ртер (čártɛr)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ча̏ртер

  Latin script: čȁrter

• → Spanish: charter, chárter
• → Swedish: charter
• → Turkish: charter
• → Uzbek: charter
• → Welsh: siarter

Translations

Adjective

charter (not comparable)

1. Leased or hired.

Translations

Verb

charter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)

1. (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
2. (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
3. (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.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• charret, chartre, rechart

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃarter/ [t͡ʃar.t̪er]
• Rhymes: -arter
• Hyphenation: char‧ter

Noun

charter inan

1. charter flight

Declension

Further reading

• "charter" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑrt(ː)er/, [ˈʃɑ̝rt̪(ː)e̞r]

Noun

charter

1. (informal) Ellipsis of charterlento (“charter flight”).

Usage notes

• preferred Finnish term for "charter flight" is tilauslento

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter. Doublet of charte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.tɛʁ/

Noun

charter m (plural charters)

1. a charter flight
2. a charter plane
3. a charter pilot

Further reading

• “charter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• châtrer

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃar.ter/
• Rhymes: -arter

Noun

charter m (invariable)

1. charter plane or flight

Adjective

charter (invariable)

1. (relational) charter

Middle English

Noun

charter

1. Alternative form of chartre

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English charter.

Noun

charter n (plural chartere)

1. (transport) charter

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾteɾ/ [ˈt͡ʃaɾ.t̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾteɾ
• Syllabification: char‧ter

Noun

charter m (plural charteres)

1. a shuttlebus

Swedish

Etymology

From English charter.

Noun

charter c

1. charter trip

   Synonym: charterresa

Declension

Derived terms

• charterbåt
• charterflyg
• charterplan
• charterturism
• charterturist
• chartra