I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a charter flight (= a plane service that is arranged for a particular group or purpose )
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The company is operating charter flights to Crete.
charter a flight (= pay a company for the use of their aircraft )
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The club have chartered a special flight for fans.
charter flight
Charter mark
charter member
charter school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
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Brown rushed several fraternities but decided on Sigma Phi Epsilon, whose national charter contained a whites-only provision.
new
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A NEW environmental charter for Darlington was launched yesterday.
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The new charter , which was trimmed down to just 82 pages, replaces the chief administrative officer with a city administrator.
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It was charged with writing a new charter and would meanwhile perform legislative and monitoring functions.
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In 1638 he became an alderman of Shrewsbury under its new royal charter .
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I welcome the concept of a new charter of rights.
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A new town charter gives out-of-state property-owners the right to vote in local elections.
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Bradstreet again served as governor until May of 1692 when the governor appointed under the new royal charter arrived.
old
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It's a tradition or an old charter or something.
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In January of 1691, King William annulled the old Calvert charters .
royal
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Surgery grew as a separate profession under its own royal charter .
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The colony was doomed to be swallowed by Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which had royal charters as it did not.
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In 1670 he was one of the original adventurers listed in the royal charter of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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These Puritans, who did have a royal charter , wanted unity even more than did the Pilgrims.
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In 1638 he became an alderman of Shrewsbury under its new royal charter .
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A market overt is a market, constituted under statute, by royal charter or by long standing custom.
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Bradstreet again served as governor until May of 1692 when the governor appointed under the new royal charter arrived.
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It is largely a compendium of model royal commands and charters , with some appropriate responses.
social
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I commend his outlook to the House when we discuss issues relating to the social charter .
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Acceptance of a social charter might lead more easily to the achievement of the goals to which the hon. Member referred.
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That is the Prime Minister's social charter for Britain.
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That is the way in which he devised his social charter when he had the ability to make policy at the Department.
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If not, why will not he accept the provisions of the social charter which would attack the problem of low pay?
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It is no wonder that the right hon. Gentleman wants to support elements of the social charter being imposed here.
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I think particularly of consultation on change, which must take place under the social charter but which has not been observed.
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One aspect of Britain's opting out of the social charter is that it must surely undermine the single market.
■ NOUN
city
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Under the city charter , the council had to appoint a replacement for McGrory by Nov. 2.
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Under the city charter , Los Angeles was prohibited from incurring a debt greater than 15 percent of its assessed valuation.
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The writing of a city charter and the election cost us about $ 25, 000.
company
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I was in the air-freight business before Stavanger brought me here - had my own small charter company .
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My own business was all right, but I had the usual trouble of small charter companies - not enough capital.
flight
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Owing to space restrictions, sail boards are not allowed on charter flights .
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For weekenders, charter flights are of little use, as usually they offer only weekly or fortnightly returns.
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It deals with the occasional situation when a holiday party arrives on a charter flight and claims asylum enbloc.
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Prices for the above itineraries are based on charter flights from London to Bangkok.
member
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Any number of trips can be taken, but travel for charter members must be completed by April 1, 1998.
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She was a charter member of Busy Bee Homemakers.
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But the buyers were mostly charter members of the class of consumer dubbed early adopters.
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Louis and the charter members can have their elbow room back.
school
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The First Lady discusses charter schools in the book, Lattimore said.
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The report acknowledges there is no proof charter schools are better than regular schools.
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A proposed resolution to oppose voucher plans and charter schools provoked a spirited debate on the convention floor.
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It passed only after it was amended to delete mention of charter schools .
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Open-enrollment charter schools draw students from across school district boundaries and are financed with state and local school dollars.
■ VERB
draw
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Work with people with disabilities and their organisation to draw up a charter of rights for people with disabilities.
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The government promised to draw up a charter of principles for multinational companies.
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A convention to draw up such a charter has already begun work.
grant
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Henry 1 granted the charter for the fairs to the Augustinian canons at Nostell Priory in 1100.
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But we have largely forgotten why we grant these charters .
propose
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The proposed charter for Maricopa County created opposition from many business and political leaders.
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This Tuesday, August 5, voters will go to the polls to accept or reject the proposed charter .
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The concept of county supervisor as onlooker is presented throughout the proposed charter .
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The proposed charter ultimately makes the supervisors even more impotent than the current Tucson City Council.
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Undoubtedly the proposed charter will be a basic document.
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The proposed charter is a combination of paranoia, elitism, staff manipulation and basic ignorance about how government really functions.
receive
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In 1212 it received the charter of a free imperial city.
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Schaffhausen received its charter in 1045.
sign
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Hilton International, Forte and Holiday Inn are among the groups that have signed the charter .
write
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There is no local authority provision for young people who are homeless - that should be written into a charter .
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The writing of a city charter and the election cost us about $ 25, 000.
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It was charged with writing a new charter and would meanwhile perform legislative and monitoring functions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chartered accountant/surveyor/engineer etc
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B and W were the two main equity partners in the firm of chartered accountants, C Connelly & Co.
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For any chartered accountant interested in the package, Aldercare is offering the package free of charge for a 30-day trial.
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He is a chartered engineer and a Member of Metallurgists.
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Last year 1,050 people lost the right to call themselves chartered accountants because they didn't stump up by 30 June.
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Working in a manufacturing company, or as a solicitor or chartered accountant gives invaluable experience.
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Young Man: Mrs Grant, my Dad's a chartered accountant.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Donating money to political groups goes against the union's charter .
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The airline is now primarily a charter service.
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The police decision to reduce their burglary squad has been described as 'a thieves' charter '.
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This housing law would be a charter for dishonest landlords to cheat their tenants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new town charter gives out-of-state property-owners the right to vote in local elections.
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Acceptance of a social charter might lead more easily to the achievement of the goals to which the hon. Member referred.
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After all, lose some bait and you can chalk it up to the charter rate.
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Agencies are achieving targets and are at the forefront of delivering the better services called for by the Government's citizens charter .
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I also welcome the citizens charter .
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Our business charter clearly tells customers what charges will be applied to their accounts.
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The charter will help to change that approach to taxation.
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We arrived just nine minutes late within the ten minute target outlined in the charter .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
plane
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She'd have to charter a small plane .
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In 1989, he reportedly chartered a plane to fly 150 of his friends to a $ 3 million party in London.
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He immediately chartered a plane to take him to Paris the next day and made his meeting.
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And unlike the Bulls, the Lakers had no chartered plane to whisk around the country, instead flying commercial.
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After speaking on the Senate floor in the morning, he stepped on the chartered campaign plane in a dark suit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A group of journalists chartered an airplane to fly them to Addis Ababa.
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I chartered a boat to take us to some of the smaller islands.
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International Aid Agencies have chartered ships to transport supplies to the disaster area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He immediately chartered a plane to take him to Paris the next day and made his meeting.
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In 1989, he reportedly chartered a plane to fly 150 of his friends to a $ 3 million party in London.
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She'd have to charter a small plane.
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You just might want to think about anyone wanting to charter any boat of yours, son.