chartered

verb

past tense of charter
1
as in rented
to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum charter a boat

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2
as in enabled
British to give official or legal power to a London firm seeking the services of a chartered accountant

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Recent Examples of chartered The Tsais chartered flights for players in 2021, which earned the team a record $500,000 league fine. — James Laforge, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 There are biker clubs, chartered and otherwise, all over the country, and there have been since the late nineteen-sixties. — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026 Local 884, which was chartered in 1960, is exclusively devoted to on-set educators, who also serve as minors‘ welfare advocates on set. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026 Machado’s team said that the opposition leader, who is now based in Panama, attempted to return to Venezuela by sea, but the company that chartered her boat canceled the trip hours before leaving, alleging its vessel was unfit for navigation. — Clyburn Saint John, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 Rams players, however, are arriving in Melbourne just one day before the game, while their opponents chartered a plane last week and have already been acclimating to the 17-hour time zone difference. — Jessica Golden, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026 When Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned Posada and released him from prison in August 2004, Gonzalez flew him to Honduras, on a plane chartered by Alvarez. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026 Reports that Liverpool chartered their own jet are incorrect. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to guard public buildings, challenged the construction of the project. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chartered
  1. rented
  2. enabled
  3. hired
  4. authorized
  5. empowered
  6. qualified
  7. licensed
  8. certified
Verb
  • Most companies run those jobs on servers rented from AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In addition to using it as an office and hosting family for long visits, Donnelly has also rented the ADU out for commercials and photo shoots.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of rented
Verb
  • Space42’s other major differentiator, according to Sabbagh, is its strategy to bring satellite communications, Earth observation, and AI-enabled analysis together within a single business.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • That flexibility, whether enabled by SSTs or other controls, could lower costs and speed up grid connections.
    — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of enabled
Verb
  • The case originates from a change in admissions policy that began a decade ago, when a consulting group was hired to evaluate how the school system chose students for its middle school magnet programs.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Determined to fortify his body for another long season, Reaves hired former Lakers head strength and conditioning coach Ed Streit to work with him.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of hired
Verb
  • The Egyptian support is defensive in nature and won't include any ground troops in Yemen, the official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to reporters.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The Egyptian support is defensive in nature and won’t include any ground troops in Yemen, the official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to reporters.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of authorized
Verb
  • Beyond this is a new film by Diop, title [Sans titres], which begins with excerpts from ethnographic films of African women, depicted as the other, and ending with shots that show empowered Black women.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • There’s even a looming question of what will happen to AI agents that people have empowered to act on their behalf, as their humans start to die.
    — Lissa Soep, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of empowered
Verb
  • After Texas launched its education savings accounts this year, Albaugh’s children were among at least 78 Covenant students who qualified for the program.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The Olivers qualified for 100 gallons of free heating oil through a local community center, help worth about $700.
    — Meg Oliver, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of qualified
Verb
  • In June, Robinhood launched Rothera, an exchange that's licensed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and managed through the brokerage's joint venture with Susquehanna International Group.
    — Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Winston said he is currently licensed to practice architecture but doesn’t practice day to day.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of licensed
Verb
  • The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has certified Boeing’s 737 MAX 10, the largest aircraft in the 737 MAX family, following a testing program involving nearly 1,000 flights and more than 2,000 flight hours.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In 2023-2024, less than a year after the takeover, Houston had over 1,000 teachers not certified to teach.
    — Daniel H. Robinson, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of certified

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“Chartered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chartered. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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