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charter
- IPA[ˈtʃɑːtə]
英式
- a written grant by the sovereign or legislative power of a country, by which a body such as a city, company, or university is founded or its rights and privileges defined；a written constitution or description of an organization's functions
- grant a charter to (a city, company, university, or other body)；hire (an aircraft or ship)
verb: charter, 3rd person present: charters, gerund or present participle: chartering, past tense: chartered, past participle: chartered
noun: charter, plural noun: charters
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a written grant by the sovereign or legislative power of a country, by which a body such as a city, company, or university is founded or its rights and privileges defined the town received a charter from the Emperor 同義詞
- ▪ a written constitution or description of an organization's functions the impending review of the BBC's Charter 同義詞
- ▪ (in the UK) a written statement of the rights of a specified group of people the standard set by the patient's charter
- ▪ British a policy or law regarded as enabling people to engage more easily in a specified undesirable activity he described the act as a charter for vandals
- 2. the hiring of an aircraft, ship, or motor vehicle for a special purpose a plane on charter to a multinational company 同義詞
- ▪ a ship or vehicle that is hired the fifty foot charter Capricorn will join the team his use of expensive private charter jets for government travel
- ▪ a trip made by a ship or vehicle under hire he liked to see the boat sparkling clean before each charter
動詞
- 1. grant a charter to (a city, company, university, or other body) the company was chartered in 1864
- 2. hire (an aircraft or ship) he immediately chartered a plane to take him to Paris
