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Past tense of charter

regular verb

The past tense of charter is chartered. The past participle is also chartered.

Forms of charter

Base form (V1)charter /ˈt͡ʃɑːtə/
Past tense (V2)chartered
Past participle (V3)chartered
Present participlechartering
Third person singularcharters

Chartered in a sentence

  • They went all out for his eightieth birthday party and chartered a tour boat on the bay.From the entry go all out
  • We must arrange to deconvert chartered vessels if the owner so desires.1941, United States Congress: House: Appropriations, Fifth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1941: Hearings ... 77th…. From the entry deconvert
  • He may want them put back in the same condition as when chartered.1941, United States Congress: House: Appropriations, Fifth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1941: Hearings ... 77th…. From the entry deconvert
  • Immediately following the conclusion of the sacrificial(6) ceremony, the delegation from Kinmen boarded a chartered boat to Putien.2009 September 7, 金門縣政府, “Kinmen's Matsu Pilgrimage Mission Takes Direct Course to Maizhou for Religious Interchange…. From the entry Putien
  • We have chartered a large plane, I’m not quite sure what it is but it seats about 16 and is a turbo-jet.1968 December 21, Richard Burton, journal; quoted in Melvyn Bragg, “1968”, in Richard Burton: A Life, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and…. From the entry xmas

Meaning of charter

  1. noun A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
  2. noun A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
  3. noun A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.

Full definition of charter

Questions about the past tense of charter

What is the past tense of charter?
The past tense of charter is chartered.
What is the past participle of charter?
The past participle of charter is chartered.
Is charter a regular or irregular verb?
Charter is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: charter (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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