decharter

plural decharters

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

present singular third person decharters · participle present dechartering · participle past dechartered · past dechartered

1. transitivegovernmentTo 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

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

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

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

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

   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.

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

2. transitivenauticalTo terminate a vessel's charter before its agreed expiration.

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   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.

   2005 June 28, Mark Helprin, The Pacific and Other Stories, Penguin Publishing Group, page 181