chartered
Britishadjective
Explanation
Something chartered is rented or leased for a short time. A chartered bus is sometimes used to take a class of kids on a field trip to the zoo. When you charter something, you use it for a specific length of time and pay a fee for it — and when you've done this, it's chartered. Most chartered things are vehicles of some sort, like a chartered airplane or a chartered yacht, used by a group of people who are traveling together. Chartered and charter come from the Latin chartula, "little paper," as in the paper form you fill out when you charter something.
Example Sentences
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It also helps arrange travel by purchasing seats on commercial flights and reselling them, and in some cases has chartered aircraft.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Charities step in to help some people leave on chartered planes, as well as via long, excruciating journeys on overcrowded trains and buses.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The chartered surveyor outbid Rolling Stones star Jagger for the idyllic Isle of Gigha, off Scotland's west coast, in 1989.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a congressionally chartered nonprofit corporation that is challenging the ballroom project, told the Supreme Court that the administration’s petition amounts to an attempt to “outrun judicial review.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
They took a chartered overnight bus to D.C. in order to be at the rally by early morning.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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