Surcharger vs Surcharge - What's the difference?
surcharger | surcharge |
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.
As a noun surcharger
is one who surcharges.As a verb surcharge is
.As an adjective surcharge is
surcharged.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)