Charter

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
3. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
4. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
5. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
6. A deed (legal contract).
7. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
8. a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
   UK, derogatory

Equivalents

Examples

“My mother, / Who has a charter to extol her blood, / When she does praise⟳ me, grieves me.”

“In what Derbyshire police say⟳ amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep⟳ it.”

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