charter

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɑrt(ː)er/, [ˈʃɑ̝rt̪(ː)e̞r]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrter

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

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