charter

• chartre (obsolete)

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: char‧ter

charter (plural charters)

1. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
2. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
3. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
4. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
5. A deed (legal contract).
6. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ix]:

     My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise me, grieves me.

7. (UK, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
   • 2001 March 23, Clare Dyer "Stolen car ruling 'a thieves' charter'", The Guardian, London:

     In what Derbyshire police say amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep it.

   • 2005 November 30, Stephen Foley "The market where 'caveat emptor' has become a charter for fraud" The Independent, London

• (signed document): chirograph (obsolete)

• → Bulgarian: ча́ртър (čártǎr)
• → Dutch: charter
• → Estonian: tšarter
• → French: charter
• → Italian: charter
• → Japanese: チャーター (chātā)
• → Polish: czarter
• → Romanian: charter
• → Russian: ча́ртер (čártɛr)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ча̏ртер

  Latin: čȁrter

• → Spanish: charter, chárter
• → Swedish: charter
• → Turkish: charter
• → Uzbek: charter
• → Welsh: siarter

charter (not comparable)

1. Leased or hired.

charter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)

1. (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
2. (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
3. (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

• charret, chartre, rechart

Borrowed from English charter. Doublet of charte.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.tɛʁ/

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charter m (plural charters)

1. a charter flight
2. a charter plane
3. a charter pilot

• “charter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• châtrer

Unadapted borrowing from English charter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃar.ter/
• Rhymes: -arter

charter m (invariable)

1. charter plane or flight

charter (invariable)

1. (relational) charter

charter

1. Alternative form of chartre

Unadapted borrowing from English charter.

charter n (plural chartere)

1. (transport) charter

Unadapted borrowing from English charter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾteɾ/ [ˈt͡ʃaɾ.t̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾteɾ
• Syllabification: char‧ter

charter m (plural charteres)

1. a shuttlebus

From English charter.

charter c

1. charter trip

   Vi ska åka på charter!

   We're going on a charter trip!

   Synonym: charterresa

• charterbåt
• charterflyg
• charterplan
• charterturism
• charterturist
• chartra