surcharge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An additional sum added to the usual amount or cost.
2. n. An overcharge, especially when unlawful.
3. n. An additional or excessive burden; an overload.
4. n. A new value or denomination overprinted on a postage or revenue stamp.
5. n. The stamp to which a new value has been applied.
6. n. Law The act of surcharging.
7. v. To charge (a person) an additional sum.
8. v. To overcharge (a person).
9. v. To place an excessive burden on; overload.
10. v. To fill beyond usual capacity; overfill.
11. v. To print a surcharge on (a postage or revenue stamp).
12. v. Law To show an omission of a credit in (an account).
13. v. To require (a person) to reimburse funds spent without authorization.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To overload, in any sense; overburden: as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
2. In law: To show an omission in; show that the accounting party ought to have charged himself with more than he has. See surcharge and falsification, under surcharge, n.
3. To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to put, or more than the herbage will sustain.
4. To overcharge; make an extra charge upon.
5. n. A charge or load above another charge; hence, an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can be well borne.
6. n. A charge or supply in excess of the amount requisite for immediate use, or for the work in hand, as of nervous force or of electricity.
7. n. In law: An extra charge made by assessors upon such as neglect to make a due return of the taxes to which they are liable.
8. n. The showing of an omission in an account or something in respect of which the accounting party ought to have charged himself more than no has.
9. n. In ceramics, a painting in a lighter enamel over a darker one which forms the ground: as, a white flower in surcharge on a buff ground.
10. n. An overcharge beyond what is just and right.
11. To print or write officially a surcharge on the face of (a postage-stamp). See surcharge, n., 6.
12. n. Something, as a new valuation or status, offioially printed on the face of a postage-stamp.

Wiktionary

1. n. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
2. n. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
3. n. philately An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
4. n. law A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
5. n. law A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
6. n. obsolete An excessive load or burden.
7. n. law, obsolete The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
8. v. To apply a surcharge.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge.
2. v. To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
3. v. (Equity) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
4. v. To print or write a surcharge on (a postage stamp).
5. n. An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
6. n. The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
7. n. (Equity) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
8. n. (Railroads) A charge over the usual or legal rates.
9. n. Something printed or written on a postage stamp to give it a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a date, etc.; also (Colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
2. v. charge an extra fee, as for a special service
3. v. place too much a load on
4. n. an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
5. v. fill to an excessive degree
6. v. show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
7. v. fill to capacity with people
8. v. print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote