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charge

Phonetics

/t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/

/t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒ/

noun

The amount of money levied for a service.
Example: There will be a charge of five dollars.
A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
Example: Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.
A forceful forward movement.
An accusation.
Example: That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
An electric charge.
The scope of someone's responsibility.
Example: The child was in the nanny's charge.
Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
Example: The child was a charge of the nanny.
A load or burden; cargo.
Example: The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
An instruction.
Example: I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
An image displayed on an escutcheon.
A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
Example: to bring a weapon to the charge
A sort of plaster or ointment.
Weight; import; value.
A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

verb

To assign a duty or responsibility to
To assign (a debit) to an account
Example: Let's charge this to marketing.
To pay on account, as by using a credit card
Example: Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)
Example: I won't charge you for the wheat
(possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.
Example: to charge coal at $5 per unit
To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
Example: I'm charging you with assault and battery.
To impute or ascribe
To call to account; to challenge
To place a burden or load on or in
To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials
Example: Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback
(of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)