Word: Charging
How to pronounce: ˈʧɑːʤɪŋ
Verb
Definitions:
1. Demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied.
Example sentences: "Wedding planners may charge an hourly fee of up to £150"
2. Formally accuse (someone) of something, especially an offence 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 travelling"
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: "Our standard charge for a letter is £25"
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. Responsibility for the 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 in attack.
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:
morning exercises
Antonyms:
calculate
compute
Derivations:
charger
charge
charged
chargeable
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Charging in Other Languages...
Spanish: Cobrar
German: Erhebung
French: Facturer
Italian: Addebitare
Turkish: şarj
