charter
IPA: tʃˈɑrtɝ
noun
- A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
- A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
- A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
- The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- A deed (legal contract).
- A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- (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
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
- (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
- (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.
adjective
- Leased or hired.
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Examples of "charter" in Sentences
- The content of the charter is simple.
- The lawyer is chartered by the court.
- He is one of the Charter Members of the.
- The UN Charter is a multilateral treaty.
- Is that not in contravention to the UN Charter
- At first, the Congress didn't renew the charter.
- The NCUA is a regulator and the charter authority.
- Charter on the preservation of the digital heritage.
- The above quotation of the charter is from the 1986 charter.
- Other documents from city offices would not supercede the charter.