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verb

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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
Noun
Fernandes Anderson would have had to resign Wednesday for her departure to trigger a special election for her Roxbury-centric District 7 seat, as required by the city charter. Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 8 May 2025 Frequent Flyer Mom Reveals Best—and Worst—Ages To Take Kids On Planes By Eileen Falkenberg-Hull Senior Editor, Autos Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member news article 0 Craft, a private aviation charter company launched in 2020, is changing the way the aviation industry approaches private air travel. Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Verb
Investigators are still piecing together what caused the sightseeing helicopter, chartered by New York Helicopter Tours, to plunge into the Hudson River, killing all six people onboard. Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025 The airline wound up chartering buses to drive us about three hours overnight from Maryland to New York. Zach Wichter, USA Today, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for charter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charter
Noun
  • The project is a Canada–Ukraine treaty co-production, produced by Bill Marks (Forsaken) at Votex Media, Volodymyr Yatsenko, and Anna Yatsenko (U Are The Universe).
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 May 2025
  • Contrary to the free access principle, the treaty suggests that access to these may be blocked unless the owner grants permission to enter.
    Michelle L.D. Hanlon, The Conversation, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • O'Neal said the Arkansas Economic Development Commission will notify economic developers and other officials about the ability to apply for grants, and promote the opportunity to apply for the grants at the state's Rural Development conference that begins Tuesday.
    Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 19 May 2025
  • The university has not confirmed what reason was provided for the termination of each individual grant.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • Another option would be renting out rather than selling your home.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
  • Private villas were rented and transformed into extravagant replicas of the movies’ opulent Capitol, complete with servers in eccentric wigs, chocolate fountains that flowed for hours and enough colorful macarons to feed a small city.
    Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Verb
  • This solution integrates contact centers with operational systems, enabling both self-service and live agent support across channels like voice, chat, and SMS.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a big temporary win by enabling its ban on transgender military members to take effect despite a lower court’s ruling.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • At the time, a spokesperson for Sesame Workshop assured the outlet that the series had a bright future ahead despite the streamer's decision not to renew their contract.
    Esther Kang, People.com, 19 May 2025
  • The dispute was caused by engineer wages, contract parity with neighboring commuter railroads, and pressures on the agency's funding and fare levels.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The researchers have secured multiple patents for their discovery and hope to move next into human trials.
    Michael Franco May 21, New Atlas, 21 May 2025
  • In the decades to come, he was granted 47 patents for his IBM work.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • Offseason moves: Chicago’s biggest move was hiring former Detroit offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, known as one of the brightest young offensive minds in the game.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • The University of Utah also stated that its police department hired a crime data analyst, Nikol Mitchell, in 2022, who discovered that the school had a cold case that had been lost for almost 20 years.
    David Chiu, People.com, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • Impenetrable custody, for example, eliminates all digital input to the storage environment while still enabling institutions to seamlessly create and authorize transactions without ever exposing the private key.
    Lior Lamesh, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Third, many injunctions are aimed at agencies under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which arguably authorizes nationwide injunctions against agency action.
    The Editors, National Review, 19 May 2025

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“Charter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charter. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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