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charge [ charge ]

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tʃɑːrdʒ ]
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tʃɑːdʒ ]
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Verb

1. Demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied.

he charged me five dollars for the wine

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2. (charge something to) Record the cost of something as an amount payable by (someone) or on (an account)

I will pay for these purchases today instead of charging them to my account.

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3. Formally accuse (someone) of something, especially an offence under law.

they were charged with assault

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4. Make an accusation or assertion that.

An employee also charged that he was discourteous.

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5. Formally accuse someone of (an offence)

It was common to charge manslaughter and culpable driving together.

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6. Entrust (someone) with a task as a duty or responsibility.

All three are equally charged to protect the Constitution.

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7. Store electrical energy in (a battery or battery-operated device)

Plug it in to your computer to charge the battery and transfer songs.

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8. (of a battery or battery-operated device) receive and store electrical energy.

Flashlights will be checked quarterly to ensure batteries remain charged.

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9. Load or fill (a container, gun, etc.) to the full or proper extent.

After regrouping and charging the guns again, the Russians broke.

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10. Fill or pervade with a quality or emotion.

The issue has become so politically charged that it is hard to view dispassionately.

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11. Rush forward in attack.

They were charging just as quickly, also blinded by chaos.

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12. Rush aggressively towards (someone or something) in attack.

The police then charged the picket line with attack dogs.

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13. Move quickly and forcefully.

Eventually he began charging forward and backing me up.

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14. Place a heraldic bearing on.

The Duke of Kent had his label charged with a cross gules between two fleurs-de-lis azure.

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Noun

1. A price asked for goods or services.

There should be a local charge for such services.

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2. A financial liability or commitment.

At that point, the bank had registered a charge on the sites.

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3. An accusation, typically one formally made against a prisoner brought to trial.

he appeared in court on a charge of attempted murder

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4. Responsibility for the care or control of someone or something.

He is worried about the health of the souls in his charge.

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5. A person or thing entrusted to the care of someone.

It was the chaperone's responsibility to ensure that her charge was happy.

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6. A responsibility or duty assigned to someone.

In our charge to domesticate this continent, we missed a few pockets of wildness where risk still dwells.

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7. An official instruction, especially one given by a judge to a jury regarding points of law.

the judge gave a painstakingly careful charge to the jury

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8. The property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form.

Sodium ions have a positive and chloride ions a negative charge.

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9. The quantity of matter responsible for electrical phenomena carried by a body.

It also causes a certain amount of electric charge to accumulate.

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10. Energy stored chemically for conversion into electricity.

Electrical charge is then carried by ions in solution in the porewater.

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11. An act or period of storing electrical energy in a battery.
12. A thrill.

I get a real charge out of stepping on the scale each morning to check my progress.

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13. A quantity of explosive to be detonated in order to fire a gun or similar weapon.

The bomb squad detonated the charge, destroying the car.

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14. A headlong rush forward, typically in attack.

Raymond broke forward into a charge, drawing his sword back for the first strike.

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15. A device or bearing placed on a shield or crest.

The swan is found in heraldry as a charge, a crest, supporters, and as a badge.

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Origin

1. Middle English (in the general senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’), from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load’, from Latin carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’.

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