Definitions for charter

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charter char·ter

Spelling: [chahr-ter]

IPA: /ˈtʃɑr tər/

Charter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in charter (acehrrt).

Definitions for charter

noun

1. a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
2. (often initial capital letter) a document defining the formal organization of a corporate body; constitution:
3. authorization from a central or parent organization to establish a new branch, chapter, etc.
4. a grant by a sovereign power creating a corporation, as the royal charters granted to British colonies in America.
5. Also called charter party. a contract by which part or all of a ship is leased for a voyage or a stated time.
6. a tour, vacation, or trip by charter arrangement:
7. special privilege or immunity.

adjective

1. of or relating to a method of travel in which the transportation is specially leased or hired for members of a group or association:
2. that can be leased or hired for exclusive or private use:
3. done or held in accordance with a charter:

verb (used with object)

1. to establish by charter:
2. to lease or hire for exclusive use:
3. to give special favor or privilege to.

Origin of charter

1200-50; Middle English chartre Old French Latin chartul(a) little paper (by assimilation), equivalent to chart(a) (see charta) + -ula -ule

Examples for charter

Secure in their charter, they presently left England for good.

They followed him, and on Twelfth Day laid the charter before him.

The chiefs and their children had the same 145 charter of the sword.

Neither was there a return to the loyal but small ghetto of charter 77.

A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”

Nothing,” Klein notes, “was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.

He can Take her In by not keeping his appointment, or—he can charter an omnibus if he likes.

Klein paints a rosy picture of the charter schools, while admitting that not all outperformed traditional public schools.

charter schools, rejecting the tenet of promotion through seniority, promised to do better.

One element of his success was no doubt the change in the charter.