charge

Meaning of charge

noun
  1. The amount of money levied for a service.
    There will be a charge of five dollars.
  2. A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
    Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.
  3. A forceful forward movement.
  4. An accusation.
    That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
  5. An electric charge.
  6. The scope of someone's responsibility.
    The child was in the nanny's charge.
  7. 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. A load or burden; cargo.
    The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
  9. An instruction.
    I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
  10. An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  11. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
  12. An image displayed on an escutcheon.
  13. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
    to bring a weapon to the charge
  14. A sort of plaster or ointment.
  15. Weight; import; value.
  16. A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
  17. An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
verb
  1. To assign a duty or responsibility to
  2. To assign (a debit) to an account
    Let's charge this to marketing.
  3. To pay on account, as by using a credit card
    Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
  4. To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)
    I won't charge you for the wheat
  5. (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.
    to charge coal at $5 per unit
  6. To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
    I'm charging you with assault and battery.
  7. To impute or ascribe
  8. To call to account; to challenge
  9. To place a burden or load on or in
  10. 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.
  11. To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback
  12. (of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

Information about charge

Hyphenation of charge

charge

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • charge is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

charge synonyms

Meaning complaint:

complaint

Meaning accusation:

accusation

Meaning billing:

billing

Meaning care:

care, tutelage, guardianship

Meaning mission:

mission, commission

Meaning commission:

commission, direction

Meaning burster:

burster

Meaning bang:

bang, boot, rush, flush, thrill, kick

Meaning cathexis:

cathexis

Meaning bearing:

bearing

Meaning accuse:

accuse

Meaning bill:

bill

Meaning tear:

tear, shoot, buck

Meaning appoint:

appoint

Meaning lodge:

lodge, file

Meaning commit:

commit, institutionalize, send

Meaning consign:

consign

Meaning agitate:

agitate, rouse, commove, excite

Meaning load:

load

Meaning level:

level, point

Meaning saddle:

saddle, burden

Meaning blame:

blame

Meaning :

count

Translation of charge

Anagrams of charge

creagh

Words that rhyme with charge

Labarge, barge, bumbarge, embarge, imbarge, rumbarge, Podarge, Lafarge, afterdischarge, countercharge, discharge, encharge, hypercharge, intercharge, litharge, mischarge, multicharge, outcharge, overcharge, overdischarge, precharge, predischarge, recharge, redischarge, reovercharge, supercharge, surcharge, turbocharge, turbosupercharge, uncharge, undercharge, unsurcharge, alarge, enlarge, large, overlarge, preenlarge, reenlarge, superlarge, unlarge, Marge, lithomarge, marge, parge, sparge, Kearsarge, Sarge, sarge, litarge, targe

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