charge

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Singular
charge

Plural
charges

charge (plural charges)

  1. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, i.e. a child to a babysitter.
  2. A load or burden.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 261a.
      we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
  3. The amount of money levied for a service.
  4. An instruction.
  5. An impetuous attack.
  6. An electric charge.
  7. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  8. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
  9. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon

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Infinitive
to charge

Third person singular
charges

Simple past
charged

Past participle
charged

Present participle
charging

to charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)

  1. To place a burden upon.
  2. To assign a duty to.
    I'm charging you with cleaning up the kitchen.
  3. To formally accuse of a crime.
    I'm charging you with grand theft auto.
  4. To assign a debit to an account.
    Let's charge this to marketing.
  5. To pay using a credit card.
    Can I charge this with my corporate card?
  6. To cause to take on an electric charge.
    Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
  7. To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat, on horseback or both.
  8. (military) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
  9. (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
  10. (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.
  11. To ready a firearm for use
    Charge your weapons, we're moving up
  12. (firefighting, transitive) To run water through (a line) so it sprays.

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charge f.

  1. load, charge

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charge

  1. first-, third-person singular indicative present of charger
  2. first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of charger
  3. second-person singular imperative of charger

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