decharterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: dē′chär′tər
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌdiːˈt͡ʃɑː.tə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˌdiˈt͡ʃɑɹ.təɹ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˌdiːˈt͡ʃɐː.tə/

  (New Zealand) IPA: /ˌdiːˈt͡ʃɐː.tɐ/, /ˌdiːˈt͡ʃɐː.ta/

• (Scotland) IPA: /ˌdiˈt͡ʃaɹ.təɹ/
• (India) IPA: /ˌɖiːˈt͡ʃaːʳ.ʈəʳ/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: de‧char‧ter

名詞

decharter (plural decharters)

1. The act of revoking, annulling, or withdrawing a charter granted to an organization, municipality, corporation, or vessel.

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動詞

decharter (third-person singular simple present decharters, present participle dechartering, simple past and past participle dechartered)(transitive)

1. (law, government) To revoke, annul, or take away a charter previously granted to an organization, municipality, or corporation.
   • 1922 MAY, CHAS. B. COOLIDGE, “WHAT THE PALM MEANS ΤΟ ΜΕ”, in THE PALM, volume XLII, number 2, THE ALPHA TAU OMEGA FRATERNITY, page 119:

     I got volleys of circular letters threatening to decharter our chapter or part of it if we didn't get subscriptions to the PALM.

   • 1947 October 31, Robert K. Heimann, “On the Campus”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XLVIII, number 6, page 4:

     Bill Lippincott’s Non-Athletic Extra-Curricular Committee, which helps to charter and decharter student groups includes a couple of Council members.

   • 1969 December 19–23, Congressional Record, volume 115, part 30, page 40993:

     With respect to paragraphs 8 and 9 dealing with the discriminatory dechartering of local unions to avoid Yablonski-Brown nominations, that process continues unabated.

   • 2004, John Cavanagh, Jerry Mander, Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, page 331:

     Publish an international watch list of corporations that exhibit persistent patterns of illegal activity, which might serve as a trigger for consumer boycotts or legal actions at the national level to decharter or decertify.

2. (nautical) To terminate a vessel's charter before its agreed expiration.
   • 2005 June 28, Mark Helprin, The Pacific and Other Stories, Penguin Publishing Group, page 181:

     The never looked anyone in the eye, they had flat heads, and although they did everything to win, as long as they belched forward like steam shovels they really didn’t care if they won or lost, which was lucky for them, because, after Roger took to the field and single-handedly prevented a single ball from touching the grass, they had to decharter their airplane and go home on a bus.

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