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   surcharge

   noun

   • 1. an additional charge or payment: "we guarantee that no surcharges will be added to the cost of your holiday"
   • ▪ a charge made by assessors as a penalty for false returns of taxable property.
   • ▪ an amount in an official account not passed by the auditor and having to be refunded by the person responsible. British
   • ▪ the showing of an omission in an account for which credit should have been given.
   • 2. a mark printed on a postage stamp changing its value.

   verb

   • 1. exact an additional charge or payment from: "retailers will be able to surcharge credit-card users"
   • 2. mark (a postage stamp) with a surcharge.

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a verb): from Old French surcharger (see sur-1, charge). The early sense of the noun (late 15th century) was ‘excessive load’.

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