Surcharge vs Overcharge - What's the difference?
surcharge | overcharge |
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 charge more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill
to continue to charge an electric device beyond its electrical capacity
To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
To fill too full; to crowd.
* Addison
To exaggerate.
As nouns the difference between surcharge and overcharge
is that surcharge is an addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price while overcharge is an excessive load or burden.As verbs the difference between surcharge and overcharge
is that surcharge is to apply a surcharge while overcharge is to charge more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.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
* discountovercharge
English
Verb
- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
- Our language is overcharged with consonants.
- to overcharge a description