Meaning

8 senses
  1. An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price. Sometimes portrayed by a buyer as excessive and rapacious; usually portrayed by a seller as justified and necessary.

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

    Aufpreis

    дополни́тельный сборdopolnítelʹnyj sbor, допла́таdopláta

  2. The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.

  3. An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.

    надпеча́ткаnadpečátka

  4. A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.

  5. A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party

  6. A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.

    пеня́penjá

    an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)

  7. (obsolete)An excessive load or burden.

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

Examples

3 sentences
  1. This train has a surcharge of three euros.

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  2. Will there be a surcharge?

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  3. Surcharges are not included.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
addition of extra charge:
philately: overprint:
law: penalty for failure to exercise common prudence as fiduciary:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
addition of extra charge:

Origin

From Middle French surcharge, from Old French. By surface analysis, sur- + charge. Piecewi

From Middle French surcharge, from Old French. By surface analysis, sur- + charge. Piecewise doublet of supercharge.

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Forms

plural: surcharges
Singularsurcharge
Pluralsurcharges

regular

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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