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Cover Charge

Definition: Cover Charge

Cover Charge

Noun

1. A fixed charge by a restaurant or night club over and above the charge for food and drink.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Cover Charge

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge. (The Cocoanuts; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind)

There's a cover charge. (Tenacious D; writing credit: Masato Ochi)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cover Charge

Language Translations for "cover charge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

kuvert. (various references)

   

German

  

gibt man eine Deckegebühr (is there a cover charge). (various references)

   

Italian

  

coperto (clothed, covered, hidden, overcast, place setting). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

カノン (cannon, cover, cover girl, covering), 席料 (admission fee, room rental), (rent). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ば い (rent), せきりょう (admission fee, backbone, desolateness, loneliness, mountain range, room rental), カバーチャージ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

overcay argechay

   

Spanish

  

precio del cubierto. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kuvertavgift. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cover Charge

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-g-h-o-r-r-v"

-1 letter: overcharge.

-2 letters: overreach.

-3 letters: coverage, overarch, overhear, recharge.

-4 letters: caroche, carroch, charger, coacher, coercer, coherer, coverer, hoverer, ochreae, overage, reacher, recover.

-5 letters: archer, career, caroch, carver, charge, charro, cheero, chegoe, chevre, chorea, coerce, cohere, corvee, craver, creche, echoer, gherao, graver, greave, grocer, hearer, heaver, ochrea, ocreae, orache, reaver, reecho, regave, regear, rehear, verger.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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