noun. A document issued by a sovereign, legislature, or other authority, creating a public or private corporation, such as a city, college, or bank, and defining its privileges and purposes.

noun. A written grant from the sovereign power of a country conferring certain rights and privileges on a person, a corporation, or the people.

noun. A document outlining the principles, functions, and organization of a corporate body; a constitution.

noun. An authorization from a central organization to establish a local branch or chapter.

noun. Special privilege or immunity.

noun. undefined

noun. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel or space on a vessel.

noun. The hiring or leasing of an aircraft, vessel, or other vehicle, especially for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.

noun. A written instrument given as evidence of agreement, transfer, or contract; a deed.

adjective. Of, relating to, or being an arrangement in which transportation is leased by a group of travelers for their exclusive, temporary use.

transitive verb. To grant a charter to; establish by charter.

transitive verb. To hire or lease by charter.

transitive verb. To hire (a bus or airplane, for example) for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.

To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See charterparty.

To establish by charter: as, to charter a bank.

noun. A written instrument, expressed in formal terms and formally executed, given as evidence of a grant, contract, etc.; any instrument, executed with form and solemuity, bestowing rights and privileges.

noun. Privilege; immunity; exemption.

noun. In com.: The letting or hiring of a ship by special contract: as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. The limits or terms of such a contract. The written instrument embodying the terms of the contract.

noun. In Eng. politics, a sort of claim of rights, or document embodying the demands or principles of the Chartists. See Chartist.

transitive verb. To establish by charter.

transitive verb. To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.

noun. A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

noun. An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.

noun. An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

noun. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

noun. The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let. See Charter party, below.

noun. land held by charter, or in socage; bookland.

noun. one of the original members of a society or corporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part in the first proceedings under it.

noun. a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for his own account, either under their charge or his.

noun. the document which embodied the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English government in 1838.

noun. a document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges

noun. a similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc

noun. a contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel

noun. the temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle

noun. a deed

adjective. leased or hired

verb. to grant or establish a charter

verb. to lease or hire something by charter

verb. grant a charter to

verb. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

noun. a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation

verb. engage for service under a term of contract

noun. a contract to hire or lease transportation

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