Definitions
1.NounAn addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price."Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge."
2.NounThe part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
3.NounAn excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
4.NounAn overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
5.NounA painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
6.NounA charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
7.NounA penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
8.NounAn excessive load or burden.
9.NounThe putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
10.VerbTo apply a surcharge.
11.VerbTo overload; to overburden."to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon"
12.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.
13.VerbTo show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.