charteredadj.
/ˈtʃɑːtəd/ 1.
a. Founded, privileged, or protected by charter.
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [adjective] > having franchises or privileges
freec1325
charteredc1425
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. vi. 113 Þai gert þe Chanownis be Chartryd.
1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 259 Britain's chartered land.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames viii. 257 The Governors..of the different Chartered Companies.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxxi. 219 There was a foundation or chartered school.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) v. §4. 239 The fugitive bondsmen found freedom in a flight to chartered towns.
b. chartered accountant n. an accountant who is qualified according to the rules of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which received a royal charter in 1880, or of the similar chartered bodies in Scotland or Ireland.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeper of accounts > other accountants
Accountant General1621
actuary1772
chartered accountant1855
liquidator1858
costs clerk1860
cost clerk1861
cost-keeper1865
credit man1878
cost accountant1892
preparer1960
creative accountant1973
1855 Index Juridicus: Scottish Law List 612 The Members of the Society of Accountants [in Edinburgh] have adopted the distinctive abbreviate letter of ‘C A’, Chartered Accountant.
1880 Accountant 8 May 5/2 The Members of this Society..are now enrolled as Chartered Accountants.
1955 Times 10 May 7/3 He said that chartered accountants had been employed for a long time as umpires in various matters.
2. figurative. Privileged; licensed.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective]
licensed1593
chartereda1616
free1666
permissioned1728
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 49 When he speakes, The Ayre, a Charter'd Libertine, is still. View more context for this quotation
1794 W. Blake London in Songs of Experience in Compl. Poetry & Prose (1982) 26 Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. liv. 308 A certain sense of decorum..still preserved its sway over the chartered libertines of Rome.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 24 The sworn and chartered foes of light.
3.
a. Of a ship or aircraft: hired under a charter-party.
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society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [adjective] > hired > of a ship
chartered1809
society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [adjective] > hired > of aircraft
chartered1929
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Chartered, hired for a voyage.
1866 Harvard Mem. Biog. I. 420 The gunboats in the river; the chartered transports..lying at the levee.
1929 Lancet 12 Jan. 105/2 We have carried several invalids..either on scheduled services or by specially chartered aircraft.
1958 New Statesman 5 Apr. 427/3 They come..on chartered planes which take them around to see the most famous sights.
b. figurative. Freighted, charged.
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1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe (Bohn) I. 375 The moment chartered with Clorinda's doom.
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