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Answer for the clue "Additional sum demanded ", 9 letters:
surcharge

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Word definitions for surcharge in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price. 2 An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer. 3 (context philately English) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) v. charge an extra fee, as for a special service rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge , soak , gazump , fleece ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Banks claim surcharges are needed to help offset the cost of installation and maintenance. ▪ But congressional investigators said bank claims of confidentiality kept them from establishing precisely how much profit banks are ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "overcharge, charge too much expense," from Old French surcharger "to overload, overburden, overcharge" (12c.), from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + chargier "to load" (see charge (v.)). Meaning "make an extra charge on" is from 1885. The noun ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A surcharge may mean: an extra fee added onto another fee or charge fuel surcharge, sky freight charges which represents additions due to jet fuel prices. bunker adjustment factor , sea freight charges which represents additions due to oil prices. surcharge ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surcharge \Sur*charge"\, n. [F.] An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense. --Bacon. (Law) The putting, by a commoner, ...

Usage examples of surcharge.

The surcharge program on imports that was imposed by Diefenbaker following the currency devaluation emergency of 1962 hit British exports the hardest, causing a 9.

As we realized what the whole affair meant, we relieved our surcharged feelings with a few general yells of execration upon Rebels generally, and upon those around us particularly, and resumed our occupation of cooking rations, killing lice, and discussing the prospects of exchange and escape.

For example, the secondary sanctions could trigger the immediate seizure of all assets of any company caught buying smuggled Iraqi oil or paying the Iraqi surcharge.

When the system is surcharged with bile, from a congested condition of the liver, we use these agents in order to obtain necessary relief.

THE WHITE ASHES OF HICKORY OR MAPLE WOOD dissolved in water make an excellent alkaline drink in fevers, or whenever the system seems surcharged with acidity.

There being an obstruction to the free passage of the blood through the heart, any excessive muscular exertion, or anything, in fact, which increases the action of the heart, is very apt to produce congestion of the lungs, and then the blood becomes surcharged with carbonic acid, which causes increased efforts to take more air into the lungs.

This impure, venous blood, surcharged with biliary elements, which must be withdrawn from it, is freely poured into the minute network of this glandular organ.

The pulse is full and strong, the blood abundant and surcharged with red corpuscles.

Swallows were flying rather low, and the sky, whose moods they watch, had the slumberous, surcharged beauty of a long, fine day, with showers not far away.

So, through the peace of that country, all laid down in grass, through the dignity and loveliness of trees and meadows, this May evening, with the birds singing under a sky surcharged with warmth and color, he sped home to dinner.

For days thereafter we heard nothing, though the hot, close Summer air seemed surcharged with the premonitions of a war storm about to burst, even as nature heralds in the same way a concentration of the mighty force of the elements for the grand crash of the thunderstorm.

For on my shield behold and see, Upon field vert, gules falcons three, Surcharged with heart ensanguiney, To prove to one and all of ye, A love-lorn knight am I.

His bannerole a-flutter from long lance, Till he was come where, plain for all to spy, Was hung the shield and blazon of Sir Gui, With bends and bars in all their painted glory, Surcharged with hand ensanguined--gules or gory.

But having seen it, and for the first time, as he believed, his passion for the woman causing it became surcharged with bitterness, atrabiliar.

Scolding, she had long ago realised, was a useless waste of time and energy where Comus was concerned, but this evening she unloosed her tongue for the mere relief that it gave to her surcharged feelings.