Definitions for Charters

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Charters char·ter

Spelling: [chahr-ter]

IPA: /ˈtʃɑr tər/

Charters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 397 anagrams from letters in Charters (acehrrst).

Definitions for Charters

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 Charters

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

Examples for Charters

I chartered a burly "contraban" to carry my luggage, and we started.

The steamer Greyhound a captured blockade-runner, was chartered.

Then he had chartered a liner privately for his venture in piracy.

As for Snyderman and her three colleagues, whose names were also withheld, they will be flown home on a chartered aircraft.

It would also mean logging one heck of a lot more miles on that chartered plane, and probably larger staffs.

In 1874 three new companies were chartered and railroad building was resumed.

The TVA, a federally owned and chartered electric power provider, is a New Deal legacy just like Social Security.

If Katz was using a chartered jet, “maybe that explains it,” Rendell said.

Last year, just after performing at a football game in November, Champion collapsed on the school's chartered bus.

This general law, however, did not apply to chartered cities.