Search Result for "surcharge": pronunciation
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill);


VERB (7)

1. charge an extra fee, as for a special service;

2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price;
[syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook]

3. fill to capacity with people;
- Example: "The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"

4. print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote;

5. fill to an excessive degree;
- Example: "The air was surcharged with tension"

6. place too much a load on;
- Example: "don't overload the car"
[syn: overload, surcharge, overcharge]

7. show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Surcharge \Sur*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surcharged; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Surcharging.] [F. surcharger. See Sur-, and
   Charge, and cf. Overcharge, Supercharge, Supercargo.]
   1. To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge;
      as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
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            Four charged two, and two surcharged one. --Spenser.
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            Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view,
            Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. (Law)
      (a) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as
          a common, than the person has a right to do, or more
          than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
      (b) (Equity) To show an omission in (an account) for which
          credit ought to have been given. --Story. Daniel.
          [1913 Webster]

   3. To print or write a surcharge on (a postage stamp).
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Surcharge \Sur*charge"\, n. [F.]
   1. An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater
      than can well be borne.
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            A numerous nobility causeth poverty and
            inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of
            expense.                              --Bacon.
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   2. (Law)
      (a) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the
          common than he has a right to.
      (b) (Equity) The showing an omission, as in an account,
          for which credit ought to have been given. --Burrill.
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   3. (Railroads) A charge over the usual or legal rates.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   4. Something printed or written on a postage stamp to give it
      a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a date,
      etc.; also (Colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

93 Moby Thesaurus words for "surcharge":
   bale, bleed, bleed white, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo,
   charge, charging, choke, clip, congest, congestion, cram, crowd,
   cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, doctor accounts, drag, drench,
   encumbrance, engorgement, exploit, exploitation, extortion, fleece,
   freight, garble accounts, glut, gluttonize, gorge, gouge, handicap,
   highway robbery, hold up, holdup, hyperemia, incubus, incumbency,
   jam, jam-pack, lading, load, loading, loan-sharking, millstone,
   oppression, overassessment, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge,
   overfeed, overfill, overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overlade,
   overload, overprice, overspill, overstuff, overtax, overtaxing,
   overweight, overweighting, pack, plethora, pressure, profiteer,
   repletion, saddling, salt, satiate, satiety, saturate, saturation,
   screw, shylocking, skin, soak, stick, sting, stuff, supercharge,
   superincumbency, supersaturate, supersaturation, surfeit, swindle,
   taxing, usury, victimize