Surcharge vs Tariff - What's the difference?
surcharge | tariff |
An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
(philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
(legal) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
(legal) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
(obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
* Francis Bacon
(legal, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
To apply a surcharge.
To overload; to overburden.
* Dryden
(legal) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves
a schedule of rates, fees or prices
(British) a sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime
As nouns the difference between surcharge and tariff
is that surcharge is an addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price while tariff is a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves.As verbs the difference between surcharge and tariff
is that surcharge is to apply a surcharge while tariff is to levy a duty on (something.surcharge
English
Noun
(en noun)- Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge .
- (Burrill)
- A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.
See also
* surtax * surchargedVerb
(en-verb)- to surcharge''' an animal or a ship; to '''surcharge a cannon
- Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, / Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
- (Blackstone)
- (Daniel)