charge

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The amount of money levied for a service.
2. (countable, uncountable) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
3. (countable, uncountable) A forceful forward movement.
4. (countable, uncountable) An accusation.
5. (countable, uncountable) An accusation.
6. (countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
7. (countable, uncountable) The scope of someone's responsibility.
8. (countable, uncountable) Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
9. (countable, uncountable) A load or burden; cargo.
10. (countable, uncountable) An instruction.
11. (countable, uncountable) A mortgage.
12. (countable, uncountable) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
13. (countable, uncountable) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
14. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A measured amount of explosive.
15. (countable, uncountable) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
16. (countable, uncountable) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
17. (countable, uncountable) A sort of plaster or ointment.
18. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Weight; import; value.
19. (countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
20. (countable, uncountable) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
21. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.

Verb

1. To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
2. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
3. (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
4. (US, transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
5. (dated, transitive) To sell (something) at a given price.
6. (transitive) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
7. (transitive) To mortgage (a property).
8. To impute or ascribe.
9. To call to account; to challenge.
10. (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
11. (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
12. (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
13. (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
14. (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.
15. (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.
16. (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.
17. (intransitive, 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.
18. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
19. (intransitive, transitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
20. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
21. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
22. (transitive) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

Synonyms

accusation

accuse

fee

commission

attack

👊

load

blame

cost

assault

price

indict

expense

responsibility

custody

burden

rush

order

indictment

care

complaint

command

allegation

expenditure

bill

debit

duty

tax

trust

rate

fill

fare

sue

impeach

payment

💸

prosecute

entrust

injunction

appoint

accusal

allege

electric charge

direction

denunciation

imputation

arraign

obligation

mission

rates

claim

lament

Translations

charge

charger

cargar

costo

Ladung

accusa

carga

carica

cargo

carregar

accusation

caricare

laden

Anklage

carga

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: chargen

In summary

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.

Sentences

The Widows charge the garbage truck , but Orville gets away .