surcharge
Other forms: surcharged; surcharges; surcharging
A surcharge is an extra amount of money you have to pay when you buy something. If you purchase your concert tickets online instead of at the box office, you'll have to pay a five-dollar surcharge.
Any added fee can be called a surcharge, whether it's the surcharge you pay for bringing an extra suitcase on an airplane or the surcharge a business pays every time a customer uses a credit card. As a verb, it means to charge someone an extra fee: "I'm changing banks because mine surcharges me every time I use my card at an ATM." In the 15th century, surcharge meant "overcharge" or "charge too much."
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an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)types:single supplementa surcharge added to the cost per person when traveling alonetype of:chargethe price charged for some article or service
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charge an extra fee, as for a special service
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rip off; ask an unreasonable price
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place too much a load on
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fill to an excessive degree
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fill to capacity with people“The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards”type of:overcrowdcause to crowd together too much
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print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
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show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been giventype of:showgive evidence of, as of records
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