charter

charter an oil tanker.

a plane on charter to a multinational company.

The government chartered the new airline.

he described the act as a charter for vandals.

the Charter is a glossy public relations con.

This travel firm specializes in charter flights.

She belongs to the Chartered Institute of Management.

shepherding tourists to the chartered bus;

the Charter would be fine if it had teeth and could be enforced.

invoke an article of the Charter of the United Nations

According to the Charter, the president is chief of the armed forces.

A royal charter exempted the Massachusetts colony from direct interference by the Crown.

The task of the Commission, as noted in the Olympic Charter, is to examine each candidature for membership of the IOC and to establish a report on each candidature to the IOC Executive Board.

Fryer and his colleague Will Dobbie have just finished a rigorous assessment of the charter schools operated by the Harlem Children's Zone.

General Manager: Ms Zhang Youmin (Alice), Cochairman of Asia-Pacific and China district of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade.

Unfortunately we know less about them than we should like since they are kept mainly in charters, runic books, a few poems, and some interlinear translations of the Bible.

Calambokidis is also a co-founder of Cascadia Research, a charter member of the Society for Marine Mammalogy and an adjunct faculty member at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.