Charter

['tʃɑːtə] or ['tʃɑrtɚ]

Definition

(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.

Checker: Reginald--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Editor: Rosalie

Synonyms and Synonymous

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).

Checker: Wendy

Definition

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.

Edited by Ivan

Examples

Typist: Rodger

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