chartered
Britishadjective
Explanation
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.
Example Sentences
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Kpler data shows Iranian oil is moving freely through Hormuz, while the only non-Iranian very large crude carrier loadings are on vessels chartered by China or Thailand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Enterprise customers can use SoFi Big Business Banking to hold and transfer funds and settle transactions at SoFi’s nationally chartered bank.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Four other vessels - MV Hebrides, MV Loch Frisa, MV Isle of Lewis and the chartered catamaran MV Alfred - are all away for scheduled maintenance or repairs.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
In January, the Emirati company chartered a tanker named Range Vale to carry Russian crude out through the Baltic Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
It would be more than a clue; it would be like booking anyone looking for them on a chartered bus ride straight to the hideaway.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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