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Surcharge   /sərtʃˈɑrdʒ/  /sˈərtʃˌɑrdʒ/   Listen
Surcharge

noun
1.
An additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill).
verb
(past & past part. surcharged; pres. part. surcharging)
1.
Charge an extra fee, as for a special service.
2.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak.
3.
Fill to capacity with people.
4.
Print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote.
5.
Fill to an excessive degree.
6.
Place too much a load on.  Synonyms: overcharge, overload.
7.
Show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.





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"Surcharge" Quotes from Famous Books



... as any writer who has dealt with the subject. He attributes it to electrical agency. "During the last season," he writes, "the clouds were charged with excessive electricity, and yet there was little or no thunder to draw off that excess from the atmosphere. In the damp and variable autumn this surcharge of electrical matter was attracted by the moist, succulent, and pointed leaves of the potato." As medicine is found to be useless for the disease, he recommends the use of the knife to cut away the diseased parts, and to keep ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
... or, in other words, the steam must have a higher temperature than is due to its elastic force, or be in the state of surcharged steam. The circumstance of the chimney flue passing through the steam will manifestly surcharge the steam with heat, so that all the circumstances which are found to accelerate corrosion, are it appears such as would also induce the formation of ...
— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne
... d'affaire de toute Espece dont j'ai ete plus que surcharge, Madame, depuis plus de quatre Mois, Chose que votre Chancelier a du vous attester, ne m' avois permis de vous rappeller Le souvenir de vos Bontes pour Moi; qualque Long qu'ait ete Le Silance que j'ai garde sur Le Desir que ...
— Pickle the Spy • Andrew Lang
... in the morning, deep in the valley, over the tree-tops of the forest, there stays a vapour, lit up within by sunlight. A glory hovers over the oaks—a cloud of light hundreds of feet thick, the air made visible by surcharge and heaviness of sunbeams, pressed together till you can see them in themselves and not reflected. The cloud slants down the sloping wood, till in a moment it is gone, and the beams are now focussed in the ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... for fitting scuppers so that the whole can be enlarged by a movable concentric ring, in order that a surcharge of water can be freely delivered; invented by ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


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