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as in to rent
to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum
charter a boat
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2
as in to enable
British
to give official or legal power to
a London firm seeking the services of a chartered accountant
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as in grant
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Recent Examples of charter
Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
Daily breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks are provided with a the charter experience.
—Caitlin Palumbo, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
But as yacht owners, yacht builders, celebrities who charter superyachts, and all of my friends who are fascinated by them (even though none of us will ever be able to afford one) tell me, superyachts have an X-factor that transcends mere money.
—Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
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Verb
That distinction matters in understanding how charter funding works in this case.
—Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
Daily breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks are provided with a the charter experience.
—Caitlin Palumbo, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
The new municipality will be able to levy taxes on its residents, oversee permitting and zoning, initiate eminent domain, apply for municipal bonds, and charter a police department.
—Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
But as yacht owners, yacht builders, celebrities who charter superyachts, and all of my friends who are fascinated by them (even though none of us will ever be able to afford one) tell me, superyachts have an X-factor that transcends mere money.
—Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charter
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Owners rent their villas in weekly blocks, with rates ranging from $393 per night (Great House Villas) to $7,663 per night for stand-alone villas.—
Paula Conway,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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But if a real estate investment isn’t in the cards at the moment, settle for the next best thing by renting one of the many villas currently listed on Airbnb.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
14 July 2025
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This enables the high-magnitude flow of campaign donations toward pollution-friendly actions in Tallahassee.—
Mel Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
22 July 2025
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That enabled Lunn to return to the mayor’s office again in 1915.—
Time,
Time,
22 July 2025
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Despite both sides agreeing on the wording of a potential bilateral peace treaty in March, the talks on Thursday brought about little clarity on when the treaty could be finalized.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
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The Paris Agreement, a binding treaty signed by nearly every nation on Earth, exists in large part to keep us from passing this threshold.—
Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
9 July 2025
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The grants were first established in a law passed in 1965, according to the lawsuit.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
15 July 2025
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So far, no one has publicly called for GM to return any of the grant money, though the agreement contains provisions that if the company was to violate the terms, the state has the right to clawback the funds, according to GM.—
Jackie Charniga,
Freep.com,
15 July 2025
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To produce these communications, the House also hired a video producer at $115,000 a year, according to public records.—
Mary Jo Pitzl,
AZCentral.com,
13 July 2025
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The Sisters of Bon Secours – the nuns who ran the home from 1925 to 1961 – hired a consulting company that denied a mass grave altogether, saying there was no evidence children had been buried there.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
13 July 2025
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But radio stations could go dark or cut programming after Congress voted to claw back federal funds given through Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private nonprofit authorized by Congress in 1967.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
19 July 2025
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Simply put, Global Payments, as a merchant acquirer, acts as a middleman between the merchant and card network to authorize and facilitate transactions.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
19 July 2025
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Filling out the rest of their roster with veteran-minimum contracts alone would cost them at least an additional $10 million.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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The network cuts are interestingly timed as her contract was reportedly set to expire this summer, according to Front Office Sports.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
15 July 2025
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Together, these patents inhibited photographers in England for about a decade.—
Anika Burgess
July 17,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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The Inflation Calculator from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics only goes back to 1913, nearly 30 years after Jack and Larry sold the alarm clock patent, so the figure isn't exact.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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“Charter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charter. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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