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Definition of "charge" in English

noun

  1. The amount of money levied for a service.

    • There will be a charge of five dollars.
  2. (military) 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. A forceful forward movement.

  4. An accusation.

  5. (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.

  6. The scope of someone's responsibility.

    • The child was in the nanny's charge.
  7. 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.
  8. A load or burden; cargo.

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

    • I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
  10. (property law) A mortgage.

  11. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

  12. (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

  13. (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.

  14. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.

    • Near-synonym: emblem
  15. (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

    • to bring a weapon to the charge
  16. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.

  17. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.

  18. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

  19. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

  20. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.

verb

  1. To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.

  2. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.

    • Let's charge this to marketing.
  3. (ambitransitive) 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.
  4. (transitive, chiefly US) 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, dated) To sell (something) at a given price.

    • to charge coal at $5 per unit
  • (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

    • I'm charging you with assault and battery.
  • (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).

  • To impute or ascribe.

  • To call to account; to challenge.

  • (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

    • [A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.
  • (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.
  • (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

  • (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)