surcharge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
  2. verb charge an extra fee, as for a special service
  3. verb rip off; ask an unreasonable price
    fleece; soak; plume; pluck; hook; overcharge; rob; gazump.
  4. verb fill to capacity with people
    • The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards
  5. verb print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
  6. verb fill to an excessive degree
    • The air was surcharged with tension
  7. verb place too much a load on
    overcharge; overload.
    • don't overload the car
  8. verb show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given

WordNet

Sur*charge" transitive verb
Etymology
F. surcharger. See Sur-, and Charge, and cf. Overcharge, Supercharge, Supercargo.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Surcharged ; present participle & verbal noun Surcharging
Definitions
  1. To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
    Four charged two, and two surcharged one. Spenser.
    Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew. Dryden.
  2. (Law) (a) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone. (b) (Equity) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given. Story. Daniel.
Sur*charge" noun
Etymology
F.
Definitions
  1. An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
    A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense. Bacon.
  2. (Law) (a) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to. (b) (Equity) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given. Burrill.

Webster 1913