SURCHARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surcharge mean? 

• SURCHARGE (noun)
  The noun SURCHARGE has 1 sense:

1. an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)

  Familiarity information: SURCHARGE used as a noun is very rare.

• SURCHARGE (verb)
  The verb SURCHARGE has 7 senses:

1. charge an extra fee, as for a special service

2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

3. fill to capacity with people

4. print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote

5. fill to an excessive degree

6. place too much a load on

7. show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given

  Familiarity information: SURCHARGE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURCHARGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("surcharge" is a kind of...):

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surcharge"):

single supplement (a surcharge added to the cost per person when traveling alone)

Derivation:

surcharge (charge an extra fee, as for a special service)

• SURCHARGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they surcharge    ... he / she / it surcharges   
Past simple: surcharged   
Past participle: surcharged   
-ing form: surcharging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Charge an extra fee, as for a special service

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "surcharge" is one way to...):

bill; charge (demand payment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

surcharge (an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge

Hypernyms (to "surcharge" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

"Surcharge" entails doing...:

bill; charge (demand payment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "surcharge"):

extort; gouge; rack; squeeze; wring (obtain by coercion or intimidation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fill to capacity with people

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards

Hypernyms (to "surcharge" is one way to...):

overcrowd (cause to crowd together too much)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "surcharge" is one way to...):

overprint; print over (print (additional text or colors) onto an already imprinted paper)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Fill to an excessive degree

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The air was surcharged with tension

Hypernyms (to "surcharge" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Place too much a load on

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

overcharge; overload; surcharge

Context example:

don't overload the car

Hypernyms (to "surcharge" is one way to...):

lade; laden; load; load up (fill or place a load on)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "surcharge" is one way to...):

show (give evidence of, as of records)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The very atmosphere he breathed was surcharged with hatred and malice, and this but served to increase the hatred and malice within him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His muscles were surcharged with vitality, and snapped into play sharply, like steel springs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Straight at the man he launched his one hundred and forty pounds of fury, surcharged with the pent passion of two days and nights.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)