charter

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation
noun a contract to hire or lease transportation
verb hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

I refuse your charter point-blank. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
| +--------+ | charter vetoed. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
Charters, 45, D. 8, Brit. — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

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