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Surcharges vs Extra - What's the difference?

surcharges | extra |

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)
  • ----

    surcharge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
  • Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge .
  • 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.
  • (Burrill)
  • (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
  • A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.
  • (legal, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
  • See also

    * surtax * surcharged

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To apply a surcharge.
  • To overload; to overburden.
  • to surcharge''' an animal or a ship; to '''surcharge a cannon
  • * Dryden
  • Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, / Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
  • (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.
  • (Blackstone)
  • To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
  • (Daniel)

    Antonyms

    * discount

    extra

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
  • extra''' work; '''extra pay
  • (dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
  • Derived terms

    * extraness

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal) To an extraordinary degree.
  • That day he ran to school extra fast.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • extra''', '''extra , read all about it!
  • A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
  • Derived terms

    * wuxtry

    Derived terms

    * extra credit English degree adverbs ----