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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   The amount of money levied for a service.

   “There will be a charge of five dollars.”

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

   “Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.”

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   A forceful forward movement.

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   An accusation.

   “That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   An electric charge.

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   The scope of someone's responsibility.

   “The child was in the nanny's charge.”

7. Meaning 7 · noun

   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. Meaning 8 · noun

   A load or burden; cargo.

   “The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.”

9. Meaning 9 · noun

   An instruction.

   “I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.”

10. Meaning 10 · noun

    An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

11. Meaning 11 · noun

    A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.

12. Meaning 12 · noun

    An image displayed on an escutcheon.

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

    “to bring a weapon to the charge”

14. Meaning 14 · noun

    A sort of plaster or ointment.

15. Meaning 15 · noun

    Weight; import; value.

16. Meaning 16 · noun

    A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

17. Meaning 17 · noun

    An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

18. Meaning 18 · verb

    To assign a duty or responsibility to

19. Meaning 19 · verb

    To assign (a debit) to an account

    “Let's charge this to marketing.”

20. Meaning 20 · verb

    To pay on account, as by using a credit card

    “Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?”

21. Meaning 21 · verb

    To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)

    “I won't charge you for the wheat”

22. Meaning 22 · verb

    (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.

    “to charge coal at $5 per unit”

23. Meaning 23 · verb

    To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

    “I'm charging you with assault and battery.”

24. Meaning 24 · verb

    To impute or ascribe

25. Meaning 25 · verb

    To call to account; to challenge

26. Meaning 26 · verb

    To place a burden or load on or in

27. Meaning 27 · verb

    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.”

28. Meaning 28 · verb

    To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback

29. Meaning 29 · verb

    (of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

How this word is used

• Everyday “There will be a charge of five dollars.”
• General “Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.”
• General “That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.”
• General “The child was in the nanny's charge.”
• General “The child was a charge of the nanny.”
• General “The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.”
• General “I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.”
• General “to bring a weapon to the charge”
• General “Let's charge this to marketing.”
• General “Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?”
• General “I won't charge you for the wheat”
• General “to charge coal at $5 per unit”
• General “I'm charging you with assault and battery.”
• General “Charge your weapons; we're moving up.”

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