charter

Meanings

Noun

• A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
• A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
• A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
• The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
• A deed .
• A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
• a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity

Adjective

• Leased or hired.

Verb

• To grant or establish a charter.
• To lease or hire something by charter.
• (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

Origin

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