(v. t.) To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
(v. t.) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
(v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
(n.) An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
(n.) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
(n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wrote to Uber, which stated that it adds a 2.6 surcharge on days when there is likely to be a lot of demand – it was Ladies’ Day.
(2) The local council is calling on food and drink shops to impose a 10p surcharge on all sugary soft beverages, with the proceeds to be put into a children’s health and food education trust.
(3) Not only did they sit on their hands when they knew about the extra surcharge for the UK, we now learn they also underestimated the scale of the UK’s contribution in 2013.
(4) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
(5) Energy firms would be required to impose the same surcharge for direct debit.
(6) Hatoyama will have to reconcile his bold initiative with election pledges to eliminate road tolls and petrol surcharges.
(7) If they pay the capital amount on an agreed instalment basis, that should be sufficient.” The UK’s position could be further weakened by indications that the Netherlands – which was hit with a £600m surcharge – is ready to go along with the deal.
(8) In miniature, Sajid Javid’s approval of touts is part of the same ideology that sees every available inch of public life exploited for profit, every transaction monetised at every possible point, from energy to entertainment, often at the expense of those least able to afford the surcharges.
(9) Revenue from the state surcharge would be earmarked for the states.
(10) France has been considering a 3% surcharge on earnings over €500,000, and Spain is considering a return to a wealth tax.
(11) Islington council will introduce a £96 per year diesel vehicle parking surcharge on 1 April.
(12) David Cameron’s refusal to pay a European budget surcharge of £1.7bn by the end of the month will incur punitive extra costs, with interest charged instantly on a rising monthly scale, the new European commission warned on Monday on its first working day in office.
(13) Isles such as Mykonos and Santorini would see a surcharge on hotel rooms, services and goods.
(14) Similarly, Sanders is running against the political establishment and calling for a fundamental restructuring of the social compact; grounded by premium-free healthcare and free public college , funded by steep tax hikes on the rich and across-the-board surcharges and fueled by what he’s calling a “political revolution”.
(15) Employers may use these data to reduce costs by not hiring tobacco users, adding surcharges for their health insurance, and strongly encouraging cessation.
(16) Financial planning for an RDF includes four analytical tasks: assessment of the potential market, estimation of the costs of an RDF, establishment of the cost-recovery objectives, definition of the role of subsidies and surcharges.
(17) We have had a strong start to the year with a record first quarter driven by a number of sales transactions being brought forward before the introduction of the additional stamp duty surcharge on buy-to-let properties,” Budden said.
(18) Judge John Stobart ordered the protesters to pay £10 compensation each to the RAF, £75 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
(19) This surcharge will also apply even if the main home you currently own is overseas.
(20) The penalty is in addition to fines, victim surcharges, compensation orders and prosecution costs.
Surtax
Definition:
(n.) An additional or extra tax.
(v. t.) To impose an additional tax on.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fees have been replaced by what the Labour party claims to want, a graduated and capped surtax, one corrupted by easements, postponements, bursaries and means tests.
(2) He said that even before the markets were swept this month by concern over Italy's giant public debt, he had proposed a surtax on annual incomes of between €5m and €10m.
(3) It is argued that, in a just scheme, a progressive, negative incentive or fee, calculated as a surtax on a modified income tax or an equivalent standard, would distribute burdens equally.