surcharge

Meanings

1. 1
   noun An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
2. 2
   noun An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
3. 3
   noun An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
4. 4
   noun A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
5. 5
   noun A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
6. 6
   noun A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
7. 7
   noun An excessive load or burden.
8. 8
   noun The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
9. 9
   verb To apply a surcharge.
10. 10
    verb To overload; to overburden.
11. 11
    verb 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.
12. 12
    verb To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.