Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hired or let by charter-party, as a ship.
- Invested with privileges by “or as if by charter; privileged.
- Granted or secured by charter: as, chartered liberties or privileges; chartered power.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.
- adjective Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
charter . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
charter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word chartered.
Examples
-
People come in chartered buses, private automobiles, on horse-back and bikes, but the healthiest, and the most faithful come walking.
-
People come in chartered buses, private automobiles, on horse-back and bikes, but the healthiest, and the most faithful come walking.
-
It was chartered from the Thai-Cambodia air line by a party of about thirty ground engineers from Don Muang.
ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951
-
Hummel interests chartered from the Southern Pacific Railroad for the sum of three thousand dollars the sea-going tug _Hughes_, to which Dodge was now transferred for the purpose of being conveyed to the port of
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office Arthur Cheney Train 1910
-
Later in the same day the Hummel interests chartered from the Southern Pacific Railroad for the sum of three thousand dollars the sea-going tug Hughes, to which Dodge was now transferred for the purpose of being conveyed to the port of
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910
-
Lawyers working for Kuwait attempted to confiscate the airplane that made the flight, but were not able to when it turned out to be chartered from a Swedish company and not owned by
The Seattle Times 2010
-
Navios Holdings has options to acquire three of the 17 chartered-in vessels currently in operation within the next two years (one Capesize, and two Ultra-Handymaxes) and eight of the ten long-term chartered-in vessels on order (on two of the 11 purchase options Navios Holdings holds a 50% initial purchase option).
-
Navios Holdings has options to acquire three of the 17 chartered-in vessels currently in operation within the next two years (one Capesize, and two Ultra-Handymaxes) and eight of the ten long-term chartered-in vessels on order (on two of the 11 purchase options Navios Holdings holds a 50% initial purchase option).
-
Also has a large fleet of long-term chartered-in vessels (some have purchase options), terminal operations, and certain other value added services.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
-
It seems to be the end of a long-standing nightmare for Aban Offshore Ltd as it finally exited its equity interest in joint venture -- Venture Drilling AS -- which has been in murky waters since mid-2008, when the only ship used for drilling called Deep Venture that it chartered from a Russian enterprise ran into litigation.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.