Charter vs. Private — What's the Difference?

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the recipient admits a limited (or inferior) status within the relationship, and it is within that sense that charters were historically granted, and it is that sense which is retained in modern usage of the term.

Belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group of people only

A document issued by a sovereign, legislature, or other authority, creating a public or private corporation, such as a city, college, or bank, and defining its privileges and purposes.

(of a person) having no official or public role or position

A written grant from the sovereign power of a country conferring certain rights and privileges on a person, a corporation, or the people

(of a service or industry) provided or owned by an individual or an independent, commercial company rather than the state

A document outlining the principles, functions, and organization of a corporate body; a constitution

The lowest rank in the army, below lance corporal or private first class.

An authorization from a central organization to establish a local branch or chapter.

Short for private parts

Special privilege or immunity.

Secluded from the sight, presence, or intrusion of others

A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel or space on a vessel.

Designed or intended for one's exclusive use

The hiring or leasing of an aircraft, vessel, or other vehicle, especially for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.

Of or confined to the individual; personal

A written instrument given as evidence of agreement, transfer, or contract; a deed.

Undertaken on an individual basis

Of, relating to, or being an arrangement in which transportation is leased by a group of travelers for their exclusive, temporary use.

Of, relating to, or receiving special hospital services and privileges

To grant a charter to; establish by charter.

Not available for public use, control, or participation

To hire or lease by charter

Belonging to a particular person or persons, as opposed to the public or the government

To hire (a bus or airplane, for example) for the exclusive, temporary use of a group of travelers.

Of, relating to, or derived from nongovernment sources

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

Conducted and supported primarily by individuals or groups not affiliated with governmental agencies or corporations

A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.

Enrolled in or attending a private school

A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.

Capitalized in shares of stock that are held by a relatively small number of owners and are not traded on the open market

The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.

Not holding an official or public position

A deed legal contract.

Not for public knowledge or disclosure; secret

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

Not appropriate for use or display in public; intimate

A provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity

Placing a high value on personal privacy

Leased or hired.

A noncommissioned rank in the US Army or Marine Corps that is below private first class.

(transitive) To grant or establish a charter.

One who holds this rank or a similar rank in another military organization.

(transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.

Privates Private parts. Often used with the.

(of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.

A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

Not accessible by the public.

An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.

Not in governmental office or employment.

An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

Not publicly known; not open; secret.

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.

The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.

Not traded by the public.

To establish by charter.

Secretive; reserved.

A document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation

Not shared with another patient.

A contract to hire or lease transportation

Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.

Grant a charter to

A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.

Engage for service under a term of contract;

The genitals.

(obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

(obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.

(obsolete) Privacy; retirement.

(obsolete) One not invested with a public office.

A private lesson.

To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently).

Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.

Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.

Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.

Having secret or private knowledge; privy.

A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

Personal interest; particular business.

Privacy; retirement.

One not invested with a public office.

A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.

The private parts; the genitals.

An enlisted man of the lowest rank;

Confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy;

Concerning things deeply private and personal;

Concerning one person exclusively;

Not expressed;