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Definition of 'surcharge'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) surcharge
an additional charge, tax, or cost.

2.  surcharge
an excessive sum or price charged.

3.  surcharge
an additional or excessive load or burden.

4.  surcharge
an overprint that alters or restates the face value of a postage or revenue stamp to which it has been applied.

5.  surcharge
the act of surcharging.

6. (v.t.) surcharge
to subject to an additional or extra charge, tax, cost, etc.

7.  surcharge
to overcharge for goods.

8.  surcharge
to print a surcharge on (a stamp).

9.  surcharge
to put an additional or excessive burden upon.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME (v.) < OF surcharger. See sur -¹, charge)

Definition of 'surcharge'

Princeton's WordNet

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

2. (verb) surcharge
charge an extra fee, as for a special service

3. (verb) overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
rip off; ask an unreasonable price

4. (verb) surcharge
fill to capacity with people
"The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"

5. (verb) surcharge
print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote

6. (verb) surcharge
fill to an excessive degree
"The air was surcharged with tension"

7. (verb) overload, surcharge, overcharge
place too much a load on
"don't overload the car"

8. (verb) surcharge
show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given

Definition of 'surcharge'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) surcharge
an overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne

2. (noun) surcharge
the putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to

3. (noun) surcharge
the showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given

4. (verb) surcharge
to overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon

5. (verb) surcharge
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

6. (verb) surcharge
to show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given

Translation of 'surcharge'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an extra amount of money charged We paid for our holiday abroad in advance but we had to pay a surcharge because of the devaluation of the pound.
Afrikaans: heffing	Arabic: دَفْعَه إضافِيَّه	Bulgarian: доплащане
Brazilian: sobretaxa	Czech: příplatek	German: der Zuschlag
Danish: tillægsgebyr	Greek: πρόσθετη χρέωση ή επιβάρυ	Spanish: recargo, sobretasa
Estonian: lisamaks	Farsi: هزينه اضافي	Finnish: lisämaksu
French: surtaxe, majoration	Hebrew: תַּשלוּם נוֹסָף	Hindi: अधिभार लेना, अधिशुल्क लेन
Croatian: naknadni namet, dodatna n	Hungarian: pótdíj	Indonesian: biaya tambahan
Icelandic: aukagreiðsla	Italian: maggiorazione	Japanese: 追加料金
Korean: 추가요금	Lithuanian: priemoka	Latvian: piemaksa
Malay: bayaran tokok	Dutch: toeslag	Norwegian: ekstra gebyr, tilleggsavg
Polish: dopłata	Persian: هزينه اضافي	Pashto: اضافی پیسی
Portuguese: sobretaxa	Romanian: suprataxă, majorare	Russian: доплата
Slovak: príplatok	Slovenian: doplačilo	Serbian: dodatna taksa
Swedish: extraavgift	Thai: การเก็บเงินเพิ่ม	Turkish: ekücret
Taiwanese: 額外費用	Ukrainian: доплата; штраф	Urdu: زاءد رقم، سر محصول
Vietnamese: số tiền tính thêm, tiền t	Chinese: 额外费
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