transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃɑ:(r)tə(r) ]
( charters, chartering, chartered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A charter is a formal document describing the rights, aims, or principles of an organization or group of people.
...Article 50 of the United Nations Charter.
N-COUNT : with supp
2.
A charter plane or boat is one which is hired for use by a particular person or group and which is not part of a regular service.
...the last charter plane carrying out foreign nationals.
...frequent charter flights to Spain.
ADJ : ADJ n
3.
If a person or organization charters a plane, boat, or other vehicle, they hire it for their own use.
He chartered a jet to fly her home from California to Switzerland...
Yesterday, a cargo ship chartered by the UN arrived in the capital carrying 1,550 tons of rice.
VERB : V n , V-ed
4.
If you describe a decision or policy as a charter for someone or something you disapprove of, you mean that it is likely to help or encourage them.
They described the Home Office scheme as a ‘charter for cheats’...
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