surchargenoun/ˈsɜːt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/

• 1

  An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price. Sometimes portrayed by a buyer as excessive and rapacious; usually portrayed by a seller as justified and necessary.

  • Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
• 2

  The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.

• 3

  hobbieslifestylephilatelyAn overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.

• 4

  artartsA painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.

• 5

  lawA charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party

• 6

  lawA penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.

• 7

  obsoleteAn excessive load or burden.

  • A Numerous Nobility, cauſet Pouerty, and Inconuenience in a State: For it is a Surcharge of Expence;
• 8

  obsoletelawThe putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

surchargeverb/ˈsɜːt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/

• 1

  To apply a surcharge.

• 2

  To overload; to overburden.

  • to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
  • My heauy hart I feare will breake in twaine, Surcharged with a heauie loade of thoughts.
• 3

  lawTo overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.

  • Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do.
• 4

  To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

  • The Idle multitude surcharge their laies