Surcharge vs Upcharge - What's the difference?
surcharge | upcharge |
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 nouns the difference between surcharge and upcharge
is that surcharge is an addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price while upcharge is a surcharge for something additional.As a verb surcharge
is to apply a surcharge.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)
