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/sərtʃˈɑrdʒ/ /sˈərtʃˌɑrdʒ/ Listen

Surcharge

noun

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

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"Surcharge" Quotes from Famous Books

... spirits, he further raised the duties on those commodities; but, on behalf of the poor, he exempted the cheaper kinds of tea. On the other hand he proposed to check the consumption of spirits by imposing an extra duty of five pence a gallon along with a surcharge on distillery licences. Further, as the duties on bricks, auction sales, sugar, bar iron, oil, wines, and coal had not lessened consumption, he again increased them. A questionable experiment was an increase in the postage of ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... consuming them. A gradual abolition of the useless offices, so much accumulated in all governments, might close this drain also from the labors of the field, and lessen the burthens imposed on them. By these, and the better means which will occur to others, the surcharge of the learned, might in time be drawn off to recruit the laboring class of citizenss the sum of industry be increased, and that ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

Words linked to "Surcharge" : wring, bill, undercharge, rob, lade, single supplement, charge, load up, print over, make full, gouge, fill, load, rack, squeeze, extort, overcrowd, show, gazump, overprint, laden, chisel, overload, rip off, fill up, cheat