A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.

Leased or hired.

(transitive) To grant or establish a charter. / (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.

(computing) A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.

Not requiring any payment.

Without any payment being required.

A nomogram.

Personal charm or magnetism. / (Christianity) An extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit. / The ability to influence without the use of logic.

(intransitive, Britain) To make a telephone call for which the party who is called agrees to pay.

(writing, theater, film) Any fictional character drawn from some stereotype who is instantly recognizable.