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Charter   /tʃˈɑrtər/   Listen
Charter

noun
1.
A document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation.
2.
A contract to hire or lease transportation.
verb
(past & past part. chartered; pres. part. chartering)
1.
Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.  Synonyms: hire, lease, rent.
2.
Grant a charter to.
3.
Engage for service under a term of contract.  Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take.  "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"



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— Quilts - Their Story and How to Make Them • Marie D. Webster
... the | comprehension of man's mind, if man will | open and dilate the powers of | his understanding as he may.{39} | 39. Compare to "mind of glass" above | But yet evermore it must be remembered | that the least part of knowledge passed to | man by this so large a charter from God | must be subject to that use for which God | hath granted it; which is the benefit and | relief of the state and society or man; | for otherwise all manner of knowledge | becometh malign and serpentine, and | therefore as carrying the quality of the | serpent's sting and malice it maketh ...
— Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature • Sir Francis Bacon
... During the fifth decade of the thirteenth century, however, it was the chief seat of Robert, Lord de Roos, a powerful Anglo-Norman noble, whose father had been one of the barons of Runnymede and one of the conservators of the Great Charter. ...
— The Boy Crusaders - A Story of the Days of Louis IX. • John G. Edgar
... many States complained that no provision had been made for the development of the juridicial and moral elements of the Covenant by the side of material guarantees. The novel character of the charter given to the nations in 1919 lay essentially in the advent of a moral solidarity which foreshadowed the coming of a new era. That principle ought to have, as its natural consequence, the extension ...
— The Geneva Protocol • David Hunter Miller
... importunity, told her he would do so when she had ridden on horseback, naked, through the town. The countess took him at his word, rode naked through the town, and Leofric was obliged to grant the men of Coventry a charter ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer


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