Surcharge

Pronunciation

Origin

From - + charge

Full definition of surcharge

Noun

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. (legal) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
5. (legal) 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 BaconA numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.
7. (legal, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

Verb

1. To apply a surcharge.
2. To overload; to overburden.to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
• DrydenYour head reclined, as hiding grief from view,
  Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
3. (legal) 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.
4. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

Antonyms

• discount