Surcharge vs Interchange - What's the difference?
surcharge | interchange |
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.
* Francis Bacon
(legal, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
To apply a surcharge.
To overload; to overburden.
* Dryden
(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.
to switch (each of two things)
to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
* Shakespeare
to swap or change places
to alternate; to intermingle or vary
An act of interchanging.
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A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
(rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
As nouns the difference between surcharge and interchange
is that surcharge is an addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price while interchange is an act of interchanging.As verbs the difference between surcharge and interchange
is that surcharge is to apply a surcharge while interchange is to switch (each of two things.surcharge
English
Noun
(en noun)- Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge .
- (Burrill)
- A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.
See also
* surtax * surchargedVerb
(en-verb)- 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.
- (Blackstone)
- (Daniel)
Antonyms
* discountinterchange
English
Verb
(interchang)- to interchange places
- I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's regal crown.
- to interchange cares with pleasures
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=That was one of three superb saves Hennessey made in the opening 45 minutes, the best of which was from Dzeko, who had been released by a slick interchange involving Silva and Sergio Aguero.}}
- Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines