charter

1. 1.

   a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation

   Broaderdocument

   Narrowerbank charterroyal charter

   Partsarticles of incorporationcertificate of incorporation
2. 2.

   a contract to hire or lease transportation

   Broadercontract

Other forms of charter

plural

charters·

past tense

charterred·

present participle

charterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about charter

What does charter mean?

charter means "hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in charter?

charter has 2 syllables: char-ter. The stress falls on "char". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɑɹtɚ/.

What is another word for charter?

Close synonyms include rent, hire, lease, lease, rent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is charter a common word?

charter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.