charge

noun

1. 1

   The amount of money levied for a service.

   There will be a charge of five dollars.

   There is a cancellation charge if you withdraw your order.

2. 2

   An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.

   Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade

3. 3

   A forceful forward movement.

   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

4. 4

   An accusation. An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.

   two charges of manslaughter

   "Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time."

5. 5

   An accusation. An accusation by a person or organization.

   That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.

   we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;

   A charge often leveled against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science.

6. 6

   An electric charge.

7. 7

   The scope of someone's responsibility.

   The child was in the nanny's charge.

   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.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   A load or burden; cargo.

   The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.

10. 10

    An instruction.

    I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.

11. 11

    A mortgage.

12. 12

    An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

13. 13

    A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

14. 14

    A measured amount of explosive.

    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.

15. 15

    An image displayed on an escutcheon.

    Near-synonym: emblem

16. 16

    A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

    to bring a weapon to the charge

17. 17

    A sort of plaster or ointment.

18. 18

    obsoleteWeight; import; value.

    many suchlike as's of great charge

19. 19

    historicalA measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

20. 20

    An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

21. 21

    slangCannabis.

    At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.

    It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window.

verb

1. 1

   To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.

   Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.

   Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.

2. 2

   To assign (a debit) to an account.

   Let's charge this to marketing.

   The law firm's billings are up this month: she's charged 1,000 billing hours to that case.

3. 3

   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.

   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.

4. 4

   To pay on account, as by using a credit card.

   Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?

   Can I charge this purchase?

5. 5

   datedTo sell (something) at a given price.

   to charge coal at $5 per unit

6. 6

   To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

   I'm charging you with assault and battery.

7. 7

   To mortgage (a property).

8. 8

   To impute or ascribe.

   No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.

   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.

9. 9

   To call to account; to challenge.

   to charge me to an answer

10. 10

    To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

    the charging of children's memories[…] with rules

    [H]er grandfather […] charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again […]

    [A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.

11. 11

    To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in. To ornament with or cause to bear.

    to charge an architectural member with a moulding

12. 12

    To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in. To assume as a bearing.

    He charges three roses.

13. 13

    To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in. To add to or represent on.

    He charges his shield with three roses or.

14. 14

    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.

    their battering cannon charged to the mouths

15. 15

    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. To cause to take on an electric charge.

    Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.

16. 16

    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. 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.

17. 17

    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. To replenish energy.

    The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.

    His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.

18. 18

    To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

    Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.

19. 19

    To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.

    The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.

    My Lord, we haue diſcouered the enemie Readie to Charge you with a mightie army.

20. 20

    To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. To commit a charging foul.

21. 21

    To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.

22. 22

    To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

Forms

plural

charges

past tense

charged

past participle

charged

present participle

charging

third person singular

charges