| 单词 | chartered |
| 释义 | chartered (once / 2043 pages) adj Something chartered is rented or leased for a short time. A chartered bus is sometimes used to take a class of kids on a field trip to the zoo. When you charter something, you use it for a specific length of time and pay a fee for it — and when you've done this, it's chartered. Most chartered things are vehicles of some sort, like a chartered airplane or a chartered yacht, used by a group of people who are traveling together. Chartered and charter come from the Latin chartula, "little paper," as in the paper form you fill out when you charter something. WORD FAMILYchartered: unchartered+/chart: charted, charter, charting, chartist, chartless, charts/charted: uncharted/charter: chartered, chartering, charters/chartist: chartists USAGE EXAMPLESAfter graduating from Cambridge University, he became a chartered accountant. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) The airline said a chartered plane was being sent to Malta to bring the passengers back to Libya after the questioning. Washington Times(Dec 23, 2016) He’s spotted customers arriving by chartered bus from as far away as Tipperary, Cork and Kerry in Ireland’s southwest, four hours away or more. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) adj hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers a chartered plane the chartered buses arrived on time Syn|Ant hired, leased unchartered not chartered |
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