charge

(countable, uncountable)The amount of money levied for a service.

There will be a charge of five dollars.

(countable, uncountable)(military) 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

(countable, uncountable)A forceful forward movement.

An accusation.

(countable, uncountable)(electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.

(countable, uncountable)The scope of someone's responsibility.

The child was in the nanny's charge.

(countable, uncountable)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.

(countable, uncountable)A load or burden; cargo.

The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.

(countable, uncountable)An instruction.

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

(countable, uncountable)(property law) A mortgage.

(countable, uncountable)(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

(countable, uncountable)(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.

(transitive)To assign (a debit) to an account.

Let's charge this to marketing.

(ambitransitive)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.

(US, transitive)(transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.

Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?

Can I charge this purchase?

(dated, transitive)To sell (something) at a given price.

to charge coal at $5 per unit

(transitive)(transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

I'm charging you with assault and battery.

Đồng nghĩa: criminate, inculpate, indict, accriminate, accuse, appeach, arraign, becry, charge, criminate, have up, incriminate, inculpate, indict

(transitive)(transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).

To impute or ascribe.

Đồng nghĩa: attribute, chalk up to, put down to, accredit, ascribe, attach, attribute, chalk up to, charge, draw, impute, lay, put down to, repose

To call to account; to challenge.

(transitive)To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

[A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.

(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.

Charge your weapons; we're moving up.

(intransitive)To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.