surcharge
noun
1. an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
Definition categories: possession, charge
Sentences with surcharge as a noun:
- Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
verb
1. charge an extra fee, as for a special service
Definition categories: possession, bill, charge
2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
Similar word(s): fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak
Definition categories: possession, cheat, chisel
3. fill to capacity with people
- The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards
Definition categories: motion, overcrowd
4. print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
Definition categories: creation, overprint
5. fill to an excessive degree
- The air was surcharged with tension
Definition categories: contact, fill
6. place too much a load on
Similar word(s): overcharge, overload
Definition categories: contact, lade, laden, load
7. show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
Definition categories: communication, show
Sentences with surcharge as a verb:
- to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon