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/sərtʃˈɑrdʒ/ /sˈərtʃˌɑrdʒ/ Listen

Surcharge

noun

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

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"Surcharge" Quotes from Famous Books

... so full of peeping things! Summer! Ah! Summer, when on the solemn old trees the long days shone and lingered, and the glory of the meadows and the murmur of life and the scent of flowers bewildered tranquillity, till surcharge of warmth and beauty brooded into dark passion, and broke! And Autumn, in mellow haze down on the fields and woods; smears of gold already on the beeches, smears of crimson on the rowans, the apple-trees still burdened, and a flax-blue sky well-nigh merging with ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... is amongst the causes of want; and the great quantity of books maketh a show rather of superfluity than lack; which surcharge, nevertheless, is not to be removed by making no more books, but by making more good books, which, as the serpent of Moses, might devour the serpents of the enchanters."—Bacon. In point of style, his lordship is here deficient; and he has also mixed ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... vibrations. It may be that even the hair of the head acts as a sensitive vibration-medium for conveying currents of physical and vitalistic activity to and from the brain. And perhaps from the centers of intense vital surcharge hair springs as a sort of annunciation or declaration, like a crest of life-assertion. Perhaps all these things, and ...

— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence

Words linked to "Surcharge" : charge, rack, fill, wring, show, single supplement, undercharge, rip off, load up, lade, chisel, laden, overcrowd, make full, overprint, gouge, fill up, bill, extort, cheat, print over, load, squeeze