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Definition charge

Etymology

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Medieval Latin carric?re (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car.

From the Franco Belgian French, charger, meaning load or exagere.

Noun

charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)

1. The scope of someone's responsibility.
2. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
3. A load or burden; cargo.
4. The amount of money levied for a service.
5. An instruction.
6. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
7. An accusation.
8. (physics and chemistry) An electric charge.
9. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
10. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
11. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
12. A forceful forward movement.
13. (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
14. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
15. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
16. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
17. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

Verb

charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)

1. to assign a duty or responsibility to
2. (transitive) to assign (a debit) to an account
3. (transitive) to pay on account, as by using a credit card
4. (transitive, intransitive) to require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)
5. (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.
6. (law) to formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
7. to impute or ascribe
8. to call to account; to challenge
9. (transitive) to place a burden or load on or in
   1. to ornament with or cause to bear
   2. (heraldry) to assume as a bearing
   3. (heraldry) to add to or represent on
10. (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
    1. (transitive) to cause to take on an electric charge
    2. (transitive) to add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).
    3. (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) to gain energy
11. (intransitive) to move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback
    1. (military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group
    2. (basketball) to commit a charging foul
    3. (cricket, of a batsman) to take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball
12. (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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