Word: Charge
How to pronounce: ʧɑːʤ
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Demand (an amount) as a price from someone for a service rendered or goods supplied.
Example sentences: "He charged me 2 euros for the postcard"
2. Accuse (someone) of something, especially an offense under law.
Example sentences: "They were charged with assault"
3. Entrust (someone) with a task as a duty or responsibility.
Example sentences: "The committee was charged with reshaping the educational system"
4. Store electrical energy in (a battery or battery-operated device)
Example sentences: "The shaver can be charged up and used while traveling"
5. Rush forward in attack.
Example sentences: "The plan is to charge headlong at the enemy"
6. Place a heraldic bearing on.
Example sentences: "A pennant argent, charged with a cross gules"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A price asked for goods or services.
Example sentences: "An admission charge"
2. An accusation, typically one formally made against a prisoner brought to trial.
Example sentences: "He appeared in court on a charge of attempted murder"
3. The responsibility of taking care or control of someone or something.
Example sentences: "The people in her charge are pupils and not experimental subjects"
4. The property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form.
Example sentences: "Water molecules are not only attracted to each other, but to any molecule with positive or negative charges."
5. A quantity of explosive to be detonated in order to fire a gun or similar weapon.
Example sentences: "Smaller charges, fired on three minute fuses lit by hand"
6. A headlong rush forward, typically one made by attacking soldiers in battle.
Example sentences: "A cavalry charge"
7. A device or bearing placed on a shield or crest.
Example sentences: "The swan is found in heraldry as a charge, a crest, supporters, and as a badge."
Synonyms:
indictment
accusation
allegation
prosecution
charges
conviction
arraignment
rap
accuse
indict
incriminate
blame
impeach
load
boot
burden
saddle
expenditure
flow rate
disbursement
expense
cost
outlay
price
billing
outgo
price tag
bill
buck
commit
go in
count
do
consign
responsibility
duty
care
job
devoir
business
payment
levy
tariff
fee
commission
obligation
commitment
instruct
enjoin
morning exercises
order
behest
command
commandment
recharge
charge up
electrify
demand
complaint
assign
appoint
ask
rush
conduct
assess
lay
put
assignment
guidance
instruction
injunction
direction
management
tear
control
administration
running
supervision
direct
send
fine
post
office
exact
offence
offense
trust
attack
assault
onset
offensive
assail
boss around
boss
Antonyms:
discharge
calculate
compute
Derivations:
charged
charging
chargeable
charger
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Charge in Other Languages...
Spanish: Cargo
German: Gebühr
French: Frais
Italian: Carica
Turkish: ücret
