ALL meanings of charge
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C c - verb charge If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them. 3
- verb charge To charge something to a person or organization means to tell the people providing it to send the bill to that person or organization. To charge something to someone's account means to add it to their account so they can pay for it later. 3
- countable noun charge A charge is an amount of money that you have to pay for a service. 3
- countable noun charge A charge is a formal accusation that someone has committed a crime. 3
- verb charge When the police charge someone, they formally accuse them of having done something illegal. 3
- verb charge If you charge someone with doing something wrong or unpleasant, you publicly say that they have done it. 3
- uncountable noun charge If you take charge of someone or something, you make yourself responsible for them and take control over them. If someone or something is in your charge, you are responsible for them. 3
- countable noun charge If you describe someone as your charge, they have been given to you to be looked after and you are responsible for them. 3
- verb charge If you charge towards someone or something, you move quickly and aggressively towards them. 3
- verb charge Charge is also a noun. 3
- verb charge To charge a battery means to pass an electrical current through it in order to make it more powerful or to make it last longer. 3
- verb charge Charge up means the same as charge. 3
- countable noun charge An electrical charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something. 3
- countable noun charge The charge in a cartridge or shell is the explosive inside it. You can also refer to the cartridge or shell itself as a charge. 3
- verb charge to set or demand (a price) 3
- verb charge to hold financially liable; enter a debit against 3
- verb charge to enter or record as an obligation against a person or his or her account 3
- verb charge to accuse or impute a fault to (a person, etc), as formally in a court of law 3
- verb charge to command; place a burden upon or assign responsibility to 3
- verb charge to make a rush at or sudden attack upon (a person or thing) 3
- verb charge to fill (a receptacle) with the proper or appropriate quantity 3
- verb charge to cause (an accumulator, capacitor, etc) to take or store electricity or (of an accumulator) to have electricity fed into it 3
- verb charge to fill or suffuse or to be filled or suffused with matter by dispersion, solution, or absorption 3
- verb charge to fill or suffuse with feeling, emotion, etc 3
- verb charge (of a judge) to address (a jury) authoritatively 3
- verb charge to load (a firearm) 3
- verb charge to aim (a weapon) in position ready for use 3
- verb charge to paint (a shield, banner, etc) with a charge 3
- verb charge (of hunting dogs) to lie down at command 3
- noun charge a price charged for some article or service; cost 3
- noun charge a financial liability, such as a tax 3
- noun charge a debt or a book entry recording it 3
- noun charge an accusation or allegation, such as a formal accusation of a crime in law 3
- noun charge an onrush, attack, or assault 3
- noun charge the call to such an attack in battle 3
- noun charge custody or guardianship 3
- noun charge a person or thing committed to someone's care 3
- noun charge a cartridge or shell 3
- noun charge the explosive required to discharge a firearm or other weapon 3
- noun charge an amount of explosive material to be detonated at any one time 3
- noun charge the quantity of anything that a receptacle is intended to hold 3
- noun charge the attribute of matter by which it responds to electromagnetic forces responsible for all electrical phenomena, existing in two forms to which the signs negative and positive are arbitrarily assigned 3
- noun charge a similar property of a body or system determined by the extent to which it contains an excess or deficiency of electrons 3
- noun charge a quantity of electricity determined by the product of an electric current and the time for which it flows, measured in coulombs 3
- noun charge the total amount of electricity stored in a capacitor 3
- noun charge the total amount of electricity held in an accumulator, usually measured in ampere-hours 3
- noun charge a load or burden 3
- noun charge a duty or responsibility; control 3
- noun charge a command, injunction, or order 3
- noun charge a thrill 3