Crossword clues for surcharge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surcharge \Sur*charge"\, n. [F.]
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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, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
(Equity) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
--Burrill.
(Railroads) A charge over the usual or legal rates.
Something printed or written on a postage stamp to give it a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a date, etc.; also (Colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge.
Surcharge \Sur*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surcharged; p. pr. & vb. n. Surcharging.] [F. surcharger. See Sur-, and Charge, and cf. Overcharge, Supercharge, Supercargo.]
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To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
Four charged two, and two surcharged one.
--Spenser.Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
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(Law)
To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
(Equity) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
--Story. Daniel.
To print or write a surcharge on (a postage stamp).
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 is also first attested early 15c. Related: Surcharged; surcharging.
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 especially in times of hyperinflation. 4 (context legal English) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party. 5 (context legal English) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties. 6 (context obsolete English) An excessive load or burden. 7 (context legal obsolete English) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to. vb. 1 To apply a surcharge. 2 To overload; to overburden. 3 (context legal English) 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. 4 To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
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, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge]
fill to capacity with people; "The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"
print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
fill to an excessive degree; "The air was surcharged with tension"
place too much a load on; "don't overload the car" [syn: overload, overcharge]
show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
Wikipedia
A Surcharge is an extra fee charged by a card acceptant when paying with cheque, credit Card, charge Card or debit card (but not cash) to cover the cost of the merchant service charge. It may be prohibited by card issuers — at all (e.g. Visa and MasterCard in the United States) or when the acceptant also accepts cards with a prohibited surcharge. Law may force to allow or prohibit a surcharge. No surcharge means that it is included in prices (even when paying with cash).
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 (payment systems) charged when paying with cheque, credit, charge or debit card
- an overprint that affects the value of a postage stamp
- a surcharge (sanction) against a public servant who has abused public funds
- any loading from above the soil line upon earth being supported by a retaining wall
- Surtax, extra tax levied upon tax
- An overload or excessive load on a retaining wall or flow within a sewage system ( glossary of engineering)
Prior to 2000 in the United Kingdom a public servant, for example a local government officer, who had unlawfully spent public funds, or caused loss to a public authority through misconduct could be surcharged to recover public money. The surcharge was applied, after referral to a court by the Audit Commission.
In the case of an illegal corporate decision by an elected body all the councillors could be surcharged. Councillors from Lambeth and Liverpool who were involved in the rate-capping rebellion in 1985 were surcharged. Councillors in the 1973 Clay Cross Housing Finance Act dispute were surcharged £685 (this is equivalent to £ today) for refusing to increase housing rent.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life recommended repealing surcharge because it was unfair for local government officers and "bore no relation to people's ability to pay or their culpability". The Local Government Act 2000 amended the Audit Commission Act 1998 to remove the ability of the Audit Commission or Secretary or State to recover financial losses from individuals. Instead they would be subject to normal sanctions determined by the Standards Board and Adjudication Panel. Following the Tribunal Review such sanctions are now dealt with by the General Regulatory Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal.
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.