Charter

(noun.) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation.

(noun.) a contract to hire or lease transportation.

(verb.) grant a charter to.

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• It was incorporated, in pursuance of an act of parliament, by a charter under the great seal, dated the 27th of July 1694. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Their exclusive charter has not been confirmed by act of parliament. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In such cases their internal freedom was maintained by a royal or imperial charter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it has stood all attacks, and went on well, notwithstanding the Assembly repealed its charter. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A charter of incorporation was granted in July, 1662; and, later, Charles II proclaimed himself founder and patron of the Royal Society for the advancement of natural science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The really rigid and mechanical thing is the charter behind which Tammany works. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was the Charter of the Land. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Robert Burns was right when he preferred poetry to charters. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots make a democracy out of an illiterate people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The boss, and the bosslet, the heeler--the men who are it--all are there exercising the real power, the power that independently of charters and elections decides what shall happen. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Turbaria Bruaria--the right of cutting heath-turf--occurs in charters relating to the district. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But it was only in 1620 that the northern region began to be settled, and that under fresh charters. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The school, chartered in 1753, grew ultimately into the University of Pennsylvania. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The very beautiful and substantial side-wheel steamship Quaker City has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave New York June 8th. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Government had seized the steamer chartered for Brazil, in order to bring troops from the Yazoo River to New Orleans to stop the rioting. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The old Scotchman was one of the innocent, chartered libertines of the place, with an unlimited stock of good jokes and stories, but seldom of any practical use. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We chartered a little steamer and went out there. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A month later they arrived at Freetown where they chartered a small sailing vessel, the Fuwalda, which was to bear them to their final destination. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• None of these things will interfere with my chartering a few thousand tons on my own account. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Shortly after the episode of the lion hunt, D'Arnot succeeded in chartering an ancient tub for the coastwise trip to Tarzan's land-locked harbor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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