charge
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Most common English words: office « government « particular « #602: charge » church » paper » object
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< Middle English chargen < Old French charger < Mediaeval Latin carricare (“‘to load’”) < Latin carrus (“‘a car, wagon’”); see car.
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charge (plural charges)
- responsibility.
- 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.
- The child was a charge of the nanny.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- A charge of 5 dollars.
- An instruction.
- I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
- (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- Pickett died leading his famous charge.
- An accusation.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 261a.
- we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
- That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 261a.
- An electric charge.
- (basketball) 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.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
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load or burden
amount of money levied for a service
instruction
impetuous attack
accusation
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electromagnetic state
A measured amount of powder and/or shot
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to charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)
- To place a burden upon.
- To assign a duty to.
- I'm charging you with cleaning up the kitchen.
- To formally accuse of a crime.
- I'm charging you with grand theft auto.
- To assign a debit to an account.
- Let's charge this to marketing.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- Can I charge my Amazon purchase to Paypal?
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
- Don't forget to charge the drill.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat, on horseback or both.
- (military) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- (cricket) (of a batsman) To take a few steps doen the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- 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.
- Charge your weapons, we're moving up
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terms derived from charge (verb)
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to place a burden upon
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to assign a duty to
to formally accuse of a crime
to assign a debt
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to pay on account
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to cause to take on an electric charge
to move forward forcefully
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to attack by moving forward quickly
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to commit a charging foul
to take a few steps doen the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball
to load equipment with material required for its use
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[edit] External links
- charge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- charge in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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[edit] Etymology
From charger.
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[edit] Noun
charge f. (plural charges)
- load, burden
- cargo, freight
- responsibility, charge
- (law) charge
- (military) charge
- (in plural) costs, expenses
[edit] Verb form
charge
- first-, third-person singular indicative present of charger
- first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of charger
- second-person singular imperative of charger