different between charter vs pleasure

English

Alternative forms

• chartre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t????t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
• Hyphenation: char?ter

Noun

charter (plural charters)

1. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
2. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
3. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
4. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
5. A deed (legal contract).
6. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
7. (Britain, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
   • 2001 March 23, Clare Dyer "Stolen car ruling 'a thieves' charter'", The Guardian, London:

     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.

   • 2005 November 30, Stephen Foley "The market where 'caveat emptor' has become a charter for fraud" The Independent, London

Descendants

• ? Bulgarian: ?????? (?art?r)
• ? Dutch: charter
• ? Estonian: tšarter
• ? French: charter
• ? Italian: charter
• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Polish: czarter
• ? Russian: ?????? (?arter)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: ?arter

• ? Spanish: charter, chárter
• ? Swedish: charter
• ? Turkish: charter
• ? Uzbek: charter

Translations

Adjective

charter (not comparable)

1. Leased or hired.

Translations

Verb

charter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)

1. (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
2. (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
3. (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

Translations

See also

• charter school

Anagrams

• charret, chartre, rechart

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.t??/

Noun

charter m (plural charters)

1. a charter flight
2. a charter plane
3. a charter pilot

Further reading

• “charter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• châtrer

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Noun

charter m (invariable)

1. Charter plane or flight

Adjective

charter (invariable)

1. (relational) charter

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??a?te?/, [?t??a?.t?e?]

Noun

charter m (plural charteres)

1. a shuttlebus

English

Etymology

From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin place? (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh?-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pl???/
• (General American) enPR: pl?zh??r, IPA^(key): /?pl???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Hyphenation: pleas?ure

Noun

pleasure (countable and uncountable, plural pleasures)

1. (uncountable) A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.

   Synonyms: delight, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, satisfaction

   Antonyms: displeasure, pain
2. (countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.

   Synonyms: delight, joy

   • Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
3. (uncountable) One's preference.

   Synonyms: desire, fancy, want, will, wish

4. (formal, uncountable) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.

   Synonym: discretion

   • He will do his pleasure on Babylon.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

pleasure

1. pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"

Verb

pleasure (third-person singular simple present pleasures, present participle pleasuring, simple past and past participle pleasured)

1. (transitive) To give or afford pleasure to.

   Synonyms: please, gratify
2. (transitive) To give sexual pleasure to.

3. (intransitive, dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.

Translations

Related terms

• displeasure
• please
• pleasant

Further reading

• pleasure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pleasure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• serpulae