chartered

verb

past tense of charter
1
as in rented
to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum charter a boat

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2
as in enabled
British to give official or legal power to a London firm seeking the services of a chartered accountant

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Recent Examples of chartered The Tsais chartered flights for players in 2021, which earned the team a record $500,000 league fine. — James Laforge, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 There are biker clubs, chartered and otherwise, all over the country, and there have been since the late nineteen-sixties. — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026 Local 884, which was chartered in 1960, is exclusively devoted to on-set educators, who also serve as minors‘ welfare advocates on set. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026 Machado’s team said that the opposition leader, who is now based in Panama, attempted to return to Venezuela by sea, but the company that chartered her boat canceled the trip hours before leaving, alleging its vessel was unfit for navigation. — Clyburn Saint John, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 Rams players, however, are arriving in Melbourne just one day before the game, while their opponents chartered a plane last week and have already been acclimating to the 17-hour time zone difference. — Jessica Golden, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026 When Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned Posada and released him from prison in August 2004, Gonzalez flew him to Honduras, on a plane chartered by Alvarez. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026 Reports that Liverpool chartered their own jet are incorrect. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to guard public buildings, challenged the construction of the project. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chartered
  1. rented
  2. enabled
  3. hired
  4. authorized
  5. empowered
  6. qualified
  7. licensed
  8. certified
Verb
  • Detectives found out Lopez rented a car in Key Largo and drove out of town, Sheriff Rick Ramsay said.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Wolf gathered up a group of friends, rented Airbnbs in Big Bear and Joshua Tree, and started drowning herself in Mud.
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of rented
Verb
  • But the Houthis hold significant territory along Yemen's Red Sea coast, which has enabled them to threaten vessels there and in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern gateway to the Red Sea and another key chokepoint for global energy supplies.
    — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Besides profound conversation, HomeView, when paired with a compatible Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad, can use personal context from apps such as Messages and Calendar to garner more relevant responses.
    — muskanbhatia, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of enabled
Verb
  • Alejandro Diaz, whom Xuan hired as an eviction manager for his real estate firm, accused Xuan of trying to break down a tenant’s door in Apple Valley and using a Taser to shock another renter’s dog, according to the civil suit.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • By July, the side project turned into a full-time job when MLB hired Weingardt as a principal product manager to explore changes to its flagship app.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of hired
Verb
  • Iamaleava is expected to miss the rest of this season with a knee injury, according to a person with knowledge of the injury not authorized to discuss it publicly.
    — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Details surface about airport fatalities The attack struck an airport complex housing terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights, a regional official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to the media.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of authorized
Verb
  • The initiative’s goal is by 2030 to have empowered 3 million people to recognize the early signs of anxiety and depression, and take steps toward helping those.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The county is empowered by statute to investigate and prosecute violations of the Unfair Competition Law on behalf of California residents and to seek restitution, civil penalties and injunctive relief for any violations.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of empowered
Verb
  • The soccer players were among many winners from the Asian Games who qualified for the military exemption.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • OpenAI and Chip Ganassi Racing qualified well in DC, but the race did not go well.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of qualified
Verb
  • The volume of content Netflix licensed in Spain rose from 2,420 hours in 2024 to 2,829 in 2025, including around 700 hours from RTVE and Atresmedia, up from 543 a year earlier, Ampere Analysis estimates.
    — Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Amylin Pharmaceuticals eventually licensed and developed it into the first GLP-1 medicine.
    — Dr. Bowman Heiden, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of licensed
Verb
  • But California regulators certified a union representing Uber and Lyft drivers last month, marking a milestone in a years-long fight by gig workers in the state.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • And not all of the proofs were certified as correct by the automatic logic verification platform Lean—in fact, some have already been retracted after outside scientists found mistakes.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of certified

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“Chartered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chartered. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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