charge

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The amount of money levied for a service.

   • There will be a charge of five dollars.
2. 2

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

   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
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   1. 4

      An accusation.

      • 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."
   2. 5

      An electric charge.

   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a…

      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.
   5. 8

      A load or burden

      A load or burden; cargo.

      • The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
   6. 9

      An instruction.

      • I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
   7. 10

      A mortgage.

   8. 11

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

   9. 12

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

   10. 13

       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.
   11. 14

       An image displayed on an escutcheon.

       • Near-synonym: emblem
   12. 15

       A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

       • to bring a weapon to the charge
   13. 16

       A sort of plaster or ointment.

   14. 17

       Weight

       Weight; import; value.

       • many suchlike as's of great charge
   15. 18

       A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds

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

   16. 19

       An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

   17. 20

       Cannabis.

       • 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.
   18. 21

       To assign a duty or responsibility to

       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.
   19. 22

       To assign (a debit) to an account.

       • Let's charge this to marketing.
   20. 23

       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.
   21. 24

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

       • Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
       • Can I charge this purchase?
   22. 25

       To sell (something) at a given price.

       • to charge coal at $5 per unit
   23. 26

       To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

       • I'm charging you with assault and battery.
   24. 27

       To mortgage (a property).

   25. 28

       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.
   26. 29

       To call to account

       To call to account; to challenge.

       • to charge me to an answer
   27. 30

       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.
   28. 31

       To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire…

       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
   29. 32

       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.
   30. 33

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

   31. 34

       Ellipsis of CHARGE syndrome.

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