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Surcharge   /sərtʃˈɑrdʒ/  /sˈərtʃˌɑrdʒ/   Listen
Surcharge

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



... foremost and exclusively, the humorist—with his shrieking Philistinism, his dominant sense for the colossally incongruous, his spontaneous faculty for staggering, ludicrous contrast. To the reflective, Mark Twain subsumed within himself a "certain surcharge and overplus of power, a buoyancy, and a sense of conquest" which typified the youth of America. It is memorable that he breathed in his youth the bracing air of the prairie, shared the collective ...
— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson



Words linked to "Surcharge" :   load, fill up, overprint, overcrowd, wring, rob, cheat, bill, soak, rack, laden, undercharge, gouge, extort, print over, fill, rip off, squeeze, charge, single supplement, lade, load up, make full, show, chisel



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