charge
English
Etymology
From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Medieval Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.
Pronunciation
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Noun
charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- There will be a charge of five dollars.
- (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.
- A forceful forward movement.
- 2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC[1]:
- Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal
- An accusation.
- Synonym: count
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- two charges of manslaughter
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
- we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
- 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:
- A charge often leveled against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science.
- That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
- (physics and chemistry) An electric charge.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- The child was in the nanny's charge.
- 1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [2]:
- He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.
- 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.
- An instruction.
- I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- to bring a weapon to the charge
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- many suchlike as's of great charge
- (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
Derived terms
- access charge
- banzai charge
- carrying charge
- chargeback
- chargecard
- charge conjugation
- charge density
- charge hand
- charge nurse
- charge-off
- charge of quarters
- charge plate
- charge sheet
- color charge/colour charge
- congestion charge
- contingent charge
- cover charge
- deferred charge
- depth charge
- electric charge
- finance charge
- fixed charge
- floating charge
- free of charge
- get a charge out of
- handling charge
- in charge
- large charge
- late charge
- negative charge
- nonrecurring charge
- partial charge
- positive charge
- press charges
- redemption charge
- reverse-charge
- reverse the charge
- sales charge
- service charge
- shaped charge
- space charge
- specific charge
- take charge
- trickle charge
- user charge
Translations
amount of money levied for a service
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military: ground attack
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forceful forward movement
accusation
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electric charge
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scope of responsibility
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someone or something entrusted to one's care
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load or burden
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instruction
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basketball: offensive foul
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measured amount of powder and/or shot
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measured amount of explosive
heraldry: image displayed on an escutcheon
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position of a weapon fitted for attack
sort of plaster or ointment
weight; import; value
measure of thirty-six pigs of lead — see charre
address given at a church service concluding a visitation
Verb
charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 22:5:
- Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.
- 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- Let's charge this to marketing.
- (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
- Can I charge this purchase?
- (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- to charge high for goods
- I won't charge you for the wheat
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- (dated) To sell at a given price.
- to charge coal at $5 per unit
- (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- I'm charging you with assault and battery.
- To impute or ascribe.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
- 1966, Stringfellow Barr, The Mask of Jove:
- He lacked the art of wounding with the sword, and in any case his critics charged that he shrank from steel; but his invective was worthy of Demosthenes and his words drew blood.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- to charge me to an answer
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- 1693, [John Locke], “§64”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
- the charging of children's memories […] with rules
- 1800, James Hogg, The Mysterious Bride
- [H]er grandfather […] charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again […]
- 1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica, entry on Moya:
- [A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.
- (transitive) 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.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- their battering cannon charged to the mouths
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- He charged the battery overnight.
- Don't forget to charge the drill.
- I charge my phone every night.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.
- His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act Expression error: Unrecognized word "iii"., scene ii:
- My Lord, we haue diſcouered the enemie
Readie to Charge you with a mightie army.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down 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.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Swahili: chaji
Translations
to place a burden upon, to assign a duty
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to assign a duty to
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to formally accuse of a crime
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to demand, require payment
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to pay on account
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to assign a debit to an account
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to load equipment with material required for its use
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to cause to take on an electric charge
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to add energy to
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of a battery or device: to gain energy
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to move forward forcefully
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military: to attack by moving forward quickly
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basketball: to commit a charging foul
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cricket: to take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball
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Further reading
- “charge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “charge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Dutch
Alternative forms
- chargie (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French charge.
Pronunciation
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- A charge (fast ground attack).
Derived terms
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Descendants
- Afrikaans: sarsie
French
Etymology
From Middle French charge, from Old French charge, carge, equivalent to a deverbal from charger.
Pronunciation
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- load, burden
- charge pesante ― heavy load
- cargo, freight
- La charge de ce bateau est de cinquante tonneaux. ― The freight of this boat is fifty tons.
- responsibility, charge
- J’ai la charge de vous dire que... ― I have the responsibility to tell you that...
- (law) charge
- Ce fait constitue une charge très grave contre le prévenu. ― This fact constitutes a very serious charge against the accused.
- (military) charge
- une charge massive contre les positions allemandes ― a massive charge against the German positions
- caricature, comic exaggeration
- (physics) charge
- (heraldry) charge
- (in the plural) costs, expenses
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Brazilian Portuguese: charge
Verb
charge
- inflection of charger:
Further reading
- “charge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle English
Verb
charge
- first-person singular present indicative of chargen
- 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, verso, lines 15–18:
- Than ſpake ẜ Gawayne And ſeyde brothir · ẜ Aggravayne I pray you and charge you meve no ſuch · maters no more a fore me fro wyte you well I woll nat be of youre counceyle //
- Then spoke Sir Gawain, and said, “Brother, Sir Agrivain, I pray you and charge you move not such matters any more before me, for be ye assured I will not be of your counsel.”
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French charge.[1][2]
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- (Brazil) cartoon (satire of public figures)
- Synonym: caricatura
References
- ^ “charge”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “charge”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Further reading
- charge on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
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