English Online Dictionary. What means charter? What does charter mean?
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)
- 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, 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)
- Leased or hired.
Translations
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.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- charret, chartre, rechart
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃarter/ [t͡ʃar.t̪er]
- Rhymes: -arter
- Hyphenation: char‧ter
Noun
charter inan
- charter flight
Declension
Further reading
- “charter”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɑrt(ː)er/, [ˈʃɑ̝rt̪(ː)e̞r]
- Rhymes: -ɑrter
Noun
charter
- (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)
- a charter flight
- a charter plane
- 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)
- charter plane or flight
Adjective
charter (invariable)
- (relational) charter
Middle English
Noun
charter
- Alternative form of chartre
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English charter.
Noun
charter n (plural chartere)
- (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)
- a shuttlebus
Swedish
Etymology
From English charter.
Noun
charter c
- charter trip
- Synonym: charterresa
Declension
Derived terms
- charterbåt
- charterflyg
- charterplan
- charterturism
- charterturist
- chartra