English

Noun

surcharge ‎(plural surcharges)

1. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.

   Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.

2. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
3. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
4. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.

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5. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
6. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
   • Francis Bacon

     A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.

7. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

Translations

See also

• surtax
• surcharged

Verb

surcharge ‎(third-person singular simple present surcharges, present participle surcharging, simple past and past participle surcharged)

1. To apply a surcharge.
2. To overload; to overburden.

   to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon

   • Dryden

     Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, / Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.

3. (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.

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

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Antonyms

• discount

Translations

French

Verb

surcharge

1. first-person singular present indicative of surcharger
2. third-person singular present indicative of surcharger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of surcharger
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of surcharger
5. second-person singular imperative of surcharger

Noun

surcharge f ‎(plural surcharges)

1. overloading
2. (object-oriented programming) overloading