Charter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CHARTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to lease or hire (a ship, aircraft etc.)
• grant a charter to (a city, university, or other body)
• hire (an aircraft, ship, or motor vehicle)
• To establish by charter.
• To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
• hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
• engage for service under a term of contract
• hire by charter
NOUN:
• a written grant by the sovereign or legislative power of a country, by which a body such as a borough, company, or university is created or its rights and privileges defined
• (in the UK) a written statement of the rights of a specified group of people
• a policy or law regarded as enabling people to engage more easily in a specified undesirable activity
• the hiring of an aircraft, ship, or motor vehicle for a special purpose
• a ship or vehicle that is hired
• a trip made by a ship or vehicle under hire
• document granting or demanding certain rights
• A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
• An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
• 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.
• A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
• The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
• a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation
• a contract to hire or lease transportation
• a written constitution or description of an organization's functions

Words related to CHARTER

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How to use CHARTER in a sentence

• Jackson, on the other hand, fearing that the Bank would succeed in getting its charter renewed with a friendly Congress, redoubled his energies to defeat it.
• The charter of the Bank of England was renewed in a form which modified the whole banking system in England.
• The burghers of Laon, taught by experience, applied to the king, Louis the Young, and offered him a sum of money to grant them a charter of commune.
• They fell back upon their charter and proceeded to carry on their government as it had been carried on before 1774, except that the governor was left out altogether.
• This was accomplished in 1860, when a charter was obtained from Kansas and a structure of six spans thrown across the river.
• Ellsworth as far as Mexico, and that, in case she would not find a steamer in Frontera, he is going to charter one.
• The sanctuary of the Holy Land derived its sacredness, as well as the charter of its inheritance, from the cave of Machpelah.
• We shall now look with much interest to the Parliamentary discussions on Indian affairs, for we must expect some important changes on the renewal of the Charter.
• Captain Wadsworth withdrew the charter from the hiding-place which had safely kept its secret until that hour, and placed it in the hands of the delighted governor.
• There were other provisions made in the Great Charter that went deeper than the feudal tenure, and affected the whole body of the civil government.
• This Great Charter was in the main a renewal of the old rights and liberties promised by Henry I.
• A committee of inquiry into the operation of the Bank Charter Act was, early in the session, nominated in the commons.
• At the same time another act was passed, taking away many rights and privileges which had been granted in the charter of Massachusetts.
• He was made treasurer of England by charter in 1232.
• The Reform agitation was being carried on with a bitterness that almost eclipsed all subsequent attempts to establish the five points of the Charter as the law of the land.
• They duly and properly requested of the magistrates the charter consigned to the latter by the late Kabel, and asked for the opening of the will.
• The trustees were visitors, and the right to hold the charter, administer the funds, and visit and govern the college, was a franchise and privilege, solemnly granted to them.
• The corporation with an unlimited charter has legally an immortal life.
• Its charter dated from the early years of Charles II and the 43d Elizabeth.
• The constitutional charter, in its present state, is a subject of pride to the French, and a sure bulwark to the throne.
• Within the meaning of the law a through train had been operated over the new line, and within charter time.
• Massachusetts did not get her old charter back, but she got another charter.
• Some of the old charter lines, as those of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, and the Carolinas had extended to the Pacific Ocean.
• It is one of the most remarkable circumstances in our history, that, when the charter government was overthrown by the war, no anarchy, nor the slightest confusion ensued.
• Coming out of such custody, the unusual designation, as we now esteem it, seems clear proof that the charter is genuine.
• This was, however, only one, though not the least significant of the momentous changes that accompanied the renewal of the Charter in 1833.

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