English-Dutch translations for surcharge

toeslagEr is sprake van de oprichting van een speciaal fonds dat wordt gevoed door een toeslag op vliegtickets, alsmede van een verzekering tegen faillissementen. There is talk of a special fund created from a surcharge on air tickets, and also of bankruptcy insurance. Sinds de regering de prijs van olie heeft verhoogd, heeft het de rekening van de consument verhoogd door een toeslag op te leggen. Ever since the government raised the price of oil, it has raised the consumer's bill by imposing a surcharge. Niemand zou er natuurlijk aan denken het gebruik van digitale camera's te verbieden of de prijs van die camera's te verhogen met een sociale toeslag. No one would think, of course, of banning the use of digital cameras or of placing a social surcharge on the price of those cameras.

An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price
An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer
A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground
A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties
The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to
To apply a surcharge
To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain
To show an omission in for which credit ought to have been given

Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon

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