surcharge

noun

An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
An excessive load or burden.
The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

verb

To apply a surcharge.
To overload; to overburden.
to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

The plural form of surcharge is: surcharges.
Languages in which surcharge is used:
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