charter
Example Sentences
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Some governments, including the UK's, chartered their own aircraft to help people leave the region.
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He will continue negotiations with the government on the corporation's charter and the future of the licence fee and BBC funding.
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But Chelini—who chartered tankers for the state oil firm before working as a hostage negotiator for the country’s intelligence service—sees his old line of work returning if criminals are drawn back to Venezuela.
Revolut competes with traditional banks for retail and business customers and has recently applied for a national bank charter in the U.S.
It applies to some but not all charter rights - democratic and language rights are excluded, for example.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.