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1. An additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)

1. Charge an extra fee, as for a special service
    
2. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price
   - overcharge, soak [informal], gazump [Brit, informal], fleece [informal], pluck [informal], rob, hook [informal], skin [informal]
    
3. Fill to capacity with people
   "The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"
    
4. Print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
    
5. Fill to an excessive degree
   "The air was surcharged with tension"
    
6. Place too much a load on
   "don't surcharge the car";
   - overload, overcharge, overweight
    
7. Show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given

Derived forms: surcharged, surcharges, surcharging

Type of: bill, charge, cheat, chisel [informal], fill, fill up, lade [archaic], laden, load, load up, overcrowd, overprint, print over, rip off [informal], show

Encyclopedia: Surcharge