Surcharges vs Extra - What's the difference?
surcharges | extra |
(surcharge)
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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.
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
(dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
(informal) To an extraordinary degree.
(cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.
An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle.
A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
As adjectives the difference between surcharges and extra
is that surcharges is while extra is beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.As an adverb extra is
(informal) to an extraordinary degree.As a noun extra is
(cricket) a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in australia referred to as a sundry.surcharges
English
Verb
(head)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
* discountextra
English
Adjective
(-)- extra''' work; '''extra pay
Derived terms
* extranessAdverb
(-)- That day he ran to school extra fast.
Noun
(en noun)- extra''', '''extra , read all about it!