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noun

Synonym Chooser

How is the word charter different from other verbs like it?

Some common synonyms of charter are hire, lease, let, and rent. While all these words mean "to engage or grant for use at a price," charter applies to the hiring or letting of a vehicle usually for exclusive use.

charter a bus to go to the game

How do hire and let relate to one another, in the sense of charter?

Both hire and let, strictly speaking, are complementary terms, hire implying the act of engaging or taking for use and let the granting of use.

we hired a car for the summer
decided to let the cottage to a young couple

In what contexts can lease take the place of charter?

While in some cases nearly identical to charter, lease strictly implies a letting under the terms of a contract but is often applied to hiring on a lease.

the diplomat leased an apartment for a year

When would rent be a good substitute for charter?

The words rent and charter are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, rent stresses the payment of money for the full use of property and may imply either hiring or letting.

instead of buying a house, they decided to rent
will not rent to families with children

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of charter
Verb
One of the Yellowstone charter flights had to be diverted to LaGuardia Airport in Queens County, approximately 30 miles and an hour or so south of Westchester County Airport. Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025 Gilbert Villegas is trying to build support for Chicago to install a city charter clarifying aldermanic and mayoral powers. Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
Noun
Almost overnight, my role became a bridge between Puerto Ricans to the mainland, helping to relocate workers (including chartering planes) to manufacturing companies that were in desperate need of talent. Ariel Diaz, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025 The pair took heat for chartering private jets for their cross-country treks. Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for charter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charter
Verb
  • The real estate market for for-sale homes has been experiencing significant housing inventory challenges in recent years because of higher mortgage rates, keeping prices elevated and would-be homebuyers renting for longer.
    Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • Homes worth more than $1 million which are rented out for most of the year would not be subject to the surcharge.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • This includes mini-rovers, crewed lunar rovers, and all kinds of instrumentation that will enable lunar exploration, development, and in-situ resource development.
    Space.com Staff, Space.com, 28 June 2025
  • That could enable more attentive owners to reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 40 percent over an average year of use.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Ukraine was one of roughly 160 countries that had agreed to the treaty, though Russia never did.
    Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
  • Any nation joining this campaign that is also a signatory to the NPT would have to withdraw from that treaty, Bollfrass says.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration has also cut more than $2.6 billion in research grants, ended federal contracts and threatened to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to cut federal funding for research and has already canceled or paused hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Northwestern faculty.
    Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • Vaughn Hillyard will join MSNBC as senior White House correspondent, as the network has hired a group of journalists for its team in advance of its split from Comcast and sister network NBC News.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 July 2025
  • Since incorporating in October, Union has hired a suite of engineers from Tesla, SpaceX and Anduril.
    David Jeans, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • To be sure, Canva’s security and trust teams still vet all potential AI tools before employees are authorized to use them.
    John Kell, Fortune, 25 June 2025
  • The alert also relayed that the FDA had authorized these monitors for wired functionality only.
    Christian Espinosa, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Zhou pointed out that besides expanding the range of hedging products for international institutions, those contracts increase the influence of the yuan in the global commodity pricing system.
    Lee Ying Shan,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 25 June 2025
  • Asuka was out of action with an injury for over a year, and Kai was released from her WWE contract during that time.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The academics also found that LGBTQ-friendly firms demonstrated an almost 25 percent increase in the number of patent citations, which is broadly considered an indication of how other companies value the innovativeness of a particular patent.
    Josie Cox, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • These include a procedure for a stoma opening and reversal on her bowel for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), heart surgery for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), bronchoscopies and tracheostomy procedures on her airway.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025

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“Charter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charter. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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