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Definitioner
Substantiv
- An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
- An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
- (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
- (legal) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
- (legal) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
- (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
- (legal, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
Verb
- To apply a surcharge.
- To overload; to overburden.
- (legal) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
- To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
Exempel
- Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
- A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.
- to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
- Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, / Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
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