H. A. Chippendale
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The Arab oil embargo of 1973 led airlines to add fuel surcharges to their passenger fares that were large enough to discourage air travel. Surcharges are usually added for special service. When you request a "rush job" from a service supplier, it will probably bring a surcharge along with it. A particularly difficult phone installation may carry a surcharge. An extra-large fine for a speeding offense after you've already had too many tickets could be called a surcharge. An added tax may be called a surcharge (or surtax) when it only affects people with incomes above a certain level. And if those low, low prices that show up in really big letters in ads for all kinds of services turn out to be misleading, it's probably because they don't include a bunch of surcharges that you won't find out about till later.
Examples of surcharge in a Sentence
Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025
Insurers also can surcharge policyholders for 100% of assessments in excess of those amounts.
—Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
On Tuesday, FedEx tacked on a 45 cents-per-pound import demand surcharge on parcel shipments from China, Hong Kong and the Philippines.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Surcharge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surcharge. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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