charter
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/icons/point.icon HIRE, LET, LEASE, RENT, CHARTER mean to engage or grant for use at a price.
HIRE and LET, strictly speaking, are complementary terms, HIRE implying the act of engaging or taking for use and LET the granting of use.
e.g. we hired a car for the summer
e.g. decided to let the cottage to a young couple
LEASE strictly implies a letting under the terms of a contract but is often applied to hiring on a lease.
e.g. the diplomat leased an apartment for a year
RENT stresses the payment of money for the full use of property and may imply either hiring or letting.
e.g. instead of buying a house, they decided to rent will not rent to families with children
CHARTER applies to the hiring or letting of a vehicle usually for exclusive use.
e.g. charter a bus to go to the game
noun
1. a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined:
(政府などから団体･大学などへの)特許(状), 免許書［状］; (大学などの設立)認可書; 支部設置許可.
e.g. the town received a charter from the Emperor.
a written constitution or description of an organization's functions:
〖しばしばthe C-〗(組織の目的･主義などを記した)憲章, 宣言(書); 定款（ていかん）, 綱領(constitution)
e.g. the impending review of the BBC's Charter.
2. the reservation of an aircraft, boat, or bus for private use:
(乗り物の)契約使用; チャーター; Cチャーター便［船］; 〖形容詞的に〗借り［貸し］切りの, チャーターした
e.g. a plane on charter to a multinational company.
an aircraft, boat, or bus that is reserved for private use:
e.g. the fifty foot charter Capricorn will join the team
e.g. as modifier : his use of expensive private charter jets for government travel .
a trip made by an aircraft, boat, or bus under charter:
e.g. he liked to see the boat sparkling clean before each charter.
verb with object
1. grant a charter to (a company, college, city, or other body):
〈政府などが〉〈地方･団体･大学など〉を認可する; …に特許(状)を与える.
e.g. the company was chartered in 1864.
2. reserve (an aircraft, boat, or bus) for private use:
〈人が〉〈船･バス･飛行機など〉を借り切る, チャーターする
e.g. he chartered a plane to take him to Paris.
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula, diminutive of charta ‘paper’ (see card1).