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Surcharge   Listen
noun
Surcharge  n.  
1.
An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. "A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense."
2.
(Law)
(a)
The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
(b)
(Equity) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
3.
(Railroads) A charge over the usual or legal rates.
4.
Something printed or written on a postage stamp to give it a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a date, etc.; also (Colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge.





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"Surcharge" Quotes from Famous Books



... but wonder—great and absolute wonder. Her eyes lingered upon Buckley's. Let no one ask or presume to tell through what subtle medium the miracle was performed. As by a lightning flash two clouds will accomplish counterpoise and compensation of electric surcharge, so on that eyeglance the man received his complement of manhood, and the maid conceded what enriched her womanly grace ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... The surcharge of taxes rendering lands a burdensome possession, the poor proprietor abandoned his field, or sold it to the powerful; and fortune became concentrated in a few hands. All the laws and institutions ...
— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney
... with tremendous purpose the little human creature in the vastness, that somehow expresses itself and heightens and changes itself in human lives and all the dreams and doings of men. Joe felt that life, thrilling to it, opening his heart to it, letting it surcharge and overflow his being with strength and joy. And he knew then that he lay as in a warm nest of the toilers and the poor, that crowded all about him in every direction were sleeping men and women and little children, all recently ...
— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim


Words linked to "Surcharge" :   chisel, soak, cheat, wring, extort, squeeze, undercharge, rip off, lade, rob, overprint, plume, overcrowd, laden, fleece, load, hook, overload, gouge, fill, gazump, overcharge, bill, make full, print over, show


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