charge
charge - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/
- (General American) IPA: /t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒ/
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's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
- A forceful forward movement.
- 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.
- That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry) An electric charge.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- The child was in the nanny's charge.
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
Derived terms
- access charge
- Allen charge
- apparent charge
- banzai charge
- bayonet charge
- blasting charge
- bluff charge
- carrying charge
- charge-coupled device
- charge account
- chargeback
- chargecard/charge card
- charge carrier
- charge conjugation
- charge density
- charge description master
- charge hand
- charge master
- charge nurse
- charge of quarters
- charge plate
- charge sheet
- charge storage
- color charge/colour charge
- commit charge
- congestion charge
- contingent charge
- cover charge
- deferred charge
- depth charge
- dynamite charge
- electric charge
- elementary charge
- finance charge
- fixed charge
- floating charge
- free of charge
- get a charge from
- get a charge out of
- handling charge
- Highland charge
- holding charge
- in charge
- large charge
- late charge
- lead the charge
- line charge
- miscellaneous charge order
- negative charge
- nonrecurring charge
- nuclear charge
- partial charge
- pastoral charge
- Pickett's charge/Pickett's Charge
- Planck charge
- pole charge
- positive charge
- precharge
- press charges
- proof charge
- redemption charge
- reverse charge
- reverse the charge
- sales charge
- satchel charge
- service charge
- shaped charge
- space charge
- specific charge
- take charge
- trickle charge
- user charge
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Verb
charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- (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.
- (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.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (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.
- (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.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- (cricket, of a batsman) 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.
- (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)
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Descendants
- → Swahili: chaji
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Anagrams
charge - Dutch
Alternative forms
- chargie (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈʃɑr.ʒə/
- Hyphenation: char‧ge
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- A charge (fast ground attack).
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Descendants
- Afrikaans: sarsie
charge - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʃaʁʒ/
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
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Descendants
Verb
charge
- inflection of charger:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
charge - Middle English
Verb
charge
- first-person singular present indicative of chargen
charge - Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃaʁ.ʒi/ [ˈʃaɦ.ʒi]
- (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃaʁ.ʒi/ [ˈʃaɦ.ʒi]
- (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈʃaɾ.ʒi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʃaʁ.ʒi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃaɻ.ʒe/
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- (Brazil) cartoon (satire of public figures)
- Synonym: caricatura