SURCHARGE

add. ·noun a charge over the usual or legal rates.

2. surcharge ·add. ·vt to print or write a surcharge on (a postage stamp).

3. surcharge ·vt to show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

4. surcharge ·noun the putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.

5. surcharge ·noun an overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.

6. surcharge ·noun the showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.

7. surcharge ·vt to overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. blackstone.

8. surcharge ·add. ·noun something printed or written on a postage stamp to give it a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a date, ·etc.; also (colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge.

9. surcharge ·vt to overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.