SURCHARGE


Meaning of SURCHARGE in English

n. & v.

--n.

1. an additional charge or payment.

2 a charge made by assessors as a penalty for false returns of taxable property.

3 a mark printed on a postage stamp changing its value.

4 an additional or excessive load.

5 Brit. an amount in an official account not passed by the auditor and having to be refunded by the person responsible.

6 the showing of an omission in an account for which credit should have been given.

--v.tr.

1. exact a surcharge from.

2 exact (a sum) as a surcharge.

3 mark (a postage stamp) with a surcharge.

4 overload.

5 fill or saturate to excess.

Etymology: ME f. OF surcharger (as SUR-(1), CHARGE)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.