Definitions
1.nounAn addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price."Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge."
2.nounAn excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
3.nounAn overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
4.nounA painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
5.nounA charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
6.nounA penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
7.nounAn excessive load or burden.
8.nounThe putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
9.verbTo apply a surcharge.
10.verbTo overload; to overburden."to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon"
11.verbTo 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.verbTo show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.