surcharge

1. 1.

   an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)

   Broadercharge

   Narrowersingle supplement

Other forms of surcharge

plural

surcharges·

past tense

surcharged·

present participle

surcharging·

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 surcharge

What does surcharge mean?

surcharge means "charge an extra fee, as for a special service". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surcharge?

surcharge has 2 syllables: sur-charge. The stress falls on "charge". In IPA it is /sɚˈtʃɑɹdʒ/.

What is another word for surcharge?

Close synonyms include overcharge, soak, gazump, fleece, plume. 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 surcharge a common word?

surcharge is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surcharge?

6 words rhyme with surcharge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.