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/ˈsɜːt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/ · noun
An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price..
Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
A Numerous Nobility, cauſet Pouerty, and Inconuenience in a State: For it is a Surcharge of Expence;
to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
My heauy hart I feare will breake in twaine, Surcharged with a heauie loade of thoughts.
Your head reclin’d, (as hiding grief from view,) / Droops, like a Roſe ſurcharg’d with morning Dew.
The threat was soon fulfilled; the evening came on, prematurely darkened by clouds that seemed surcharged with a deluge.
The first, on January 1, 1883, was attributed to the overlay becoming surcharged with water, due to insufficient drainage, and causing a slip.
Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do.
Use surcharge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Surcharge means An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price..
Common synonyms include plume, fleece, hook, pluck.
Possible antonyms include discount, undercharge.
Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
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