CHARTER
\t͡ʃˈɑːtə], \tʃˈɑːtə], \tʃ_ˈɑː_t_ə]\
Definitions of CHARTER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation
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a contract to hire or lease transportation
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grant a charter to
By Princeton University
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a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation
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a contract to hire or lease transportation
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grant a charter to
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
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An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
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An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
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A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
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The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
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To establish by charter.
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To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
By Oddity Software
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A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
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An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
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An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
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A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
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To establish by charter.
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The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See party, below.
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To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See party, under Charter, n.
By Noah Webster.
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An official paper bestowing certain rights and privileges; a written order from the authorities of a society to establish another chapter, etc.
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To grant a charter to; colloquially, to hire for one's own use.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A formal written paper, conferring or confirming titles, rights, or privileges: a patent: grant: immunity.
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To establish by charter: to let or hire, as a ship, on contract.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A document drawn up in due form, conferring or confirming certain powers, rights, privileges, and immunities; a patent; a grant; a contract, as in letting or hiring a ship; a claim of rights.
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To establish by charter; to hire or let a ship by charter.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Any written paper or document conferring privileges or confirming rights; privilege; exemption.
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To hire or let a ship under a written agreement.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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