Charter
['tʃɑːtə] or ['tʃɑrtɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation.
(noun.) a contract to hire or lease transportation.
(verb.) grant a charter to.
编辑:雷金纳德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
(n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
(n.) An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
(n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
(n.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
(v. t.) To establish by charter.
(v. t.) To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
录入:罗莎莉
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Instrument, deed, indenture, act of incorporation.[2]. Right, privilege, prerogative, immunity, franchise, liberty.
v. a. [1]. Incorporate, establish by charter, grant by charter.[2]. Let or hire (a ship).
手打:温迪
解释:
n. any formal writing in evidence of a grant contract or other transaction conferring or confirming titles rights or privileges or the like: the formal deed by which a sovereign guarantees the rights and privileges of his subjects like the famous Mag′na Chart′a signed by King John at Runnymede 15th June 1215 or the Charte of Louis XVIII. at the Restoration in 1814 or that sworn by Louis-Philippe 29th August 1830: any instrument by which powers and privileges are conferred by the state on a select body of persons for a special object as the 'charter of a bank:' a patent: grant allowance: immunity.—v.t. to establish by charter: to let or hire as a ship on contract.—p.adj. Chart′ered granted or protected by a charter: privileged: licensed: hired by contract.
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例句:
- It was incorporated, in pursuance of an act of parliament, by a charter under the great seal, dated the 27th of July 1694. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Their exclusive charter has not been confirmed by act of parliament. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In such cases their internal freedom was maintained by a royal or imperial charter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But it has stood all attacks, and went on well, notwithstanding the Assembly repealed its charter. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- A charter of incorporation was granted in July, 1662; and, later, Charles II proclaimed himself founder and patron of the Royal Society for the advancement of natural science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The really rigid and mechanical thing is the charter behind which Tammany works. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It was the Charter of the Land. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Robert Burns was right when he preferred poetry to charters. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots make a democracy out of an illiterate people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The boss, and the bosslet, the heeler--the men who are it--all are there exercising the real power, the power that independently of charters and elections decides what shall happen. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Turbaria Bruaria--the right of cutting heath-turf--occurs in charters relating to the district. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- But it was only in 1620 that the northern region began to be settled, and that under fresh charters. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The school, chartered in 1753, grew ultimately into the University of Pennsylvania. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The very beautiful and substantial side-wheel steamship Quaker City has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave New York June 8th. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The Government had seized the steamer chartered for Brazil, in order to bring troops from the Yazoo River to New Orleans to stop the rioting. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The old Scotchman was one of the innocent, chartered libertines of the place, with an unlimited stock of good jokes and stories, but seldom of any practical use. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- We chartered a little steamer and went out there. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- A month later they arrived at Freetown where they chartered a small sailing vessel, the Fuwalda, which was to bear them to their final destination. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- None of these things will interfere with my chartering a few thousand tons on my own account. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Shortly after the episode of the lion hunt, D'Arnot succeeded in chartering an ancient tub for the coastwise trip to Tarzan's land-locked harbor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
校对:罗杰