charge

noun23

1. •
   money that must be paid to use a service or to have work done

   • There will be a charge of five dollars.
   • There is a cancellation charge if you withdraw your order.
2. •
   An accusation.
3. •
   An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.

   • "Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time." — 2006
4. •
   An accusation by a person or organization.

   • That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
5. •
   The scope of someone's responsibility.

   • The child was in the nanny's charge.
6. •
   An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.

   • Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
7. •
   A forceful forward movement.

   • Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal — 2011
8. •
   An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
9. •
   An electric charge.
10. •
    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.
11. •
    A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
12. •
    A measured amount of explosive.

    • Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that. — 1953
13. •
    An instruction.

    • I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
14. •
    An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
15. •
    A mortgage.
16. •
    A load or burden; cargo.

    • The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
17. •
    A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
18. •
    An image displayed on an escutcheon.
19. •
    (slang) Cannabis.

    • At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know. — 1966
20. •
    A sort of plaster or ointment.
21. •
    Ellipsis of chargé d'affaires.
22. •
    (no longer used) Weight; import; value.
23. •
    (no longer used, historical) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

verb22

1. •
   To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).

   • to charge high for goods
   • I won't charge you for the wheat.
2. •
   To sell (something) at a given price.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.

   • He charged the battery overnight.
   • Don't forget to charge the drill.
5. •
   To replenish energy.

   • The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.
   • His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
6. •
   To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

   • I'm charging you with assault and battery.
7. •
   To impute or ascribe.

   • No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time. — 1693
8. •
   To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
9. •
   To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.

   • The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
10. •
    To commit a charging foul.
11. •
    To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
12. •
    To assign (a debit) to an account.

    • Let's charge this to marketing.
    • The law firm's billings are up this month: she's charged 1,000 billing hours to that case.
13. •
    To pay on account, as by using a credit card.

    • Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
    • Can I charge this purchase?
14. •
    To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.

    • Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God. — 1611
15. •
    To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

    • the charging of children's memories[…] with rules — 1693
16. •
    To cause to take on an electric charge.

    • Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
17. •
    To ornament with or cause to bear.
18. •
    To assume as a bearing.

    • He charges three roses.
19. •
    To add to or represent on.

    • He charges his shield with three roses or.
20. •
    To mortgage (a property).
21. •
    To call to account; to challenge.
22. •
    To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

noun1

1. •
   Ellipsis of CHARGE syndrome.