Usually means: Document granting rights and privileges.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word charter:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. charter: Merriam-Webster
  2. charter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. charter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. charter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. charter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Charter, charter: Wordnik
  7. charter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Charter, charter: Wiktionary
  9. charter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. charter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. charter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. charter: Dictionary.com
  13. charter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. charter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Charter (New York), Charter (disambiguation), Charter (typeface), Charter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Charter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. charter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. charter: Rhymezone
  19. Charter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. charter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Charter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. charter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. charter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. charter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. charter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. charter: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. charter: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. charter: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. CHARTER: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Charter: Investopedia
  13. charter: Legal dictionary
  14. charter: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. charter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. CHARTER: Masonic Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Charter: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See chartered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
noun:  A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
noun:  A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
noun:  The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
noun:  A deed (legal contract).
noun:  A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
noun:  (UK, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
adjective:  Leased or hired.
verb:  (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
verb:  (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
verb:  (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
noun:  A surname.

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