dechartering

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To revoke, annul, or take away a charter previously granted to an organization, municipality, or corporation.
   • I got volleys of circular letters threatening to decharter our chapter or part of it if we didn't get subscriptions to the PALM.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
2. (transitive) To terminate a vessel's charter before its agreed expiration.
   • 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...2005 June 28, Mark Helprin, The Pacific and Other Stories, Penguin Publishing Group, page 181

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