chargeable

adjective6

1. •
   Able to be charged.

   • The battery is chargeable by means of this device.
2. •
   That may be charged to an account.

   • In summary, the variation of a lease for consideration is generally chargeable to SDLT. — 2006
3. •
   Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).

   • Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder. — 1865
4. •
   That one may be legally charged with.
5. •
   Imputable

   • These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of. — 1853
6. •
   (no longer used) Expensive.

   • A gentleman threatening to go to law, was dissuaded from it by his friends, who desired him to consider, for the law was chargeable. — 1865