Other forms: chartered, charters, chartering
A charter is a formal document granting rights. A royal charter, the company's charter, charter of rights.
Magna Carta is the great charter, and the modern sense of a charter as a statement of principles descends from that. As a verb it means to hire a whole vehicle — charter a plane. A chartered professional is one qualified under a body holding a royal charter.
1nouncharterA formal document granting rights.
“The king granted the town a charter giving it the right to hold a weekly market.”
2verbhireTo hire a whole vehicle.
“The club chartered a plane to fly the players and fans to the final.”
charter is a document, or a hiring.
Old French chartre comes from Latin chartula, a little paper, from charta, papyrus. Chart is the same word.
Latin
chartula
Old French
chartre
Middle English
charter
English, today
charter
From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. a doublet of chartula.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA