decharter

noun

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

verb

1. (transitive)To 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.”

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

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

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To terminate a vessel's charter before its agreed expiration.

   “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.”