Definitions for surcharge

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surcharge sur·charge

Spelling: [noun sur-chahrj; verb sur-chahrj, Surcharge is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 395 anagrams from letters in surcharge (aceghrrsu).

Definitions for surcharge

noun

1. an additional charge, tax, or cost.
2. an excessive sum or price charged.
3. an additional or excessive load or burden.
4. Philately. an overprint that alters or restates the face value or denomination of a stamp to which it has been applied. a stamp bearing such an overprint.
5. act of surcharging.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to an additional or extra charge, tax, cost, etc. (for payment).
2. to overcharge for goods.
3. to show an omission in (an account) of something that operates as a charge against the accounting party; to omit a credit toward (an account).
4. Philately. to print a surcharge on (a stamp).
5. to put an additional or excessive burden upon.

Origin of surcharge

1400-50; late Middle English surchargen (v.) Old French surcharger. See sur-¹, charge

Examples for surcharge

Every one knows his expenses; there is no surcharge, and fees to waiters are voluntary, and never asked for.

By a surcharge of ore, which deranges the action of the furnace, and produces impure cinder, containing uncombined iron.

It is a white cast iron, made by a surcharge of ore in the furnace.

The quarterly form was best adapted to admit of this surcharge, as the harp was to occupy the centre of the Union flag.

This surcharge will raise revenues by some $4.5 billion in the first year.

The devil was predictably in the details, with a surcharge on the rich and a call to end the state and local tax deduction.

It does occur, but as an exception; and it is due not to a desire for food but tergo to a surcharge of energy demanding discharge.

The company makes money by adding a 15 percent surcharge to the price of the meal.

Independently of the variations in printing, there are two types of surcharge.

As to the surcharge, I'll take care of that A beautiful creature, is not she, Mary?