surcharge
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Is surcharge a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
2. (art) A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
3. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
4. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
5. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.Examples: "A Numerous Nobility, cauſet Pouerty, and Inconuenience in a State: For it is a Surcharge of Expence;"obsolete
6. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (law) 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.Examples: "Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do."
Definition source: Wiktionary