surcharge

noun surcharges

1. An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price. Sometimes portrayed by a buyer as excessive and rapacious; usually portrayed by a seller as justified and necessary. Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
2. The 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. An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
4. A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
5. A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
6. A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
7. obsolete An excessive load or burden. A Numerous Nobility, cauſet Pouerty, and Inconuenience in a State: For it is a Surcharge of Expence;
8. obsolete The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

verb surcharges · surcharging · surcharged

1. To apply a surcharge.
2. To overload; to overburden. to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
3. To 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. Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do.
4. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given. The Idle multitude surcharge their laies

Opposite: discount