Charter

Quick meaning: Charter is a noun meaning A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.

Meaning

A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.

More Meanings

1. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
2. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
3. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
4. A deed (legal contract).
5. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
6. Leased or hired.
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

Example Sentences

My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me.

In what Derbyshire police say amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep it.

Word Forms

• charters
• chartre
• chartering
• chartered

Synonyms for charter

Depending on context, synonyms include chirograph, engage, take, rent, hire, lease.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rent, lease, hire, take, engage, rental.

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