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surcharge
[ noun sur-chahrj; verb sur-chahrj, sur-chahrj ]
noun
- an additional charge, tax, or cost.
- an excessive sum or price charged.
- an additional or excessive load or burden.
- Philately.
- an overprint that alters or restates the face value or denomination of a stamp to which it has been applied.
- a stamp bearing such an overprint.
- act of surcharging.
verb (used with object)
- to subject to an additional or extra charge, tax, cost, etc. (for payment).
- to overcharge for goods.
- to show an omission in (an account) of something that operates as a charge against the accounting party; to omit a credit toward (an account).
- Philately. to print a surcharge on (a stamp).
- to put an additional or excessive burden upon.
surcharge
noun
- a charge in addition to the usual payment, tax, etc
- an excessive sum charged, esp when unlawful
- an extra and usually excessive burden or supply
- law the act or an instance of surcharging
- an overprint that alters the face value of a postage stamp
verb
- to charge an additional sum, tax, etc
- to overcharge (a person) for something
- to put an extra physical burden upon; overload
- to fill to excess; overwhelm
- law to insert credits that have been omitted in (an account)
- to overprint a surcharge on (a stamp)
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Derived Forms
- surˈcharger, noun
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Other Words From
- sur·charger noun
- unsur·charged adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of surcharge1
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Example Sentences
The company makes money by adding a 15 percent surcharge to the price of the meal.
The devil was predictably in the details, with a surcharge on the rich and a call to end the state and local tax deduction.
On this explanation the Central Authority (whilst upholding the auditor's decision in point of law) remitted the surcharge.
As to the surcharge, I'll take care of that A beautiful creature, is not she, Mary?
Their income is mainly derived from the local rate, a surcharge of one-twelfth on the land revenue.
The sum of the errors of an assay, which is called the surcharge, is reported in the same way.
It is stated that the surcharge was made up in its peculiar form so as to prevent counterfeiting by the use of ordinary type.
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