Charge

/t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

The amount of money levied for a service..

Definitions by Sense

1. The amount of money levied for a service.
2. (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
3. A forceful forward movement.
4. An accusation.
5. (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
6. The scope of someone's responsibility.
7. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
8. A load or burden; cargo.

Example Sentences

There will be a charge of five dollars.

Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade

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

The child was in the nanny's charge.

He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.

The child was a charge of the nanny.

The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.

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

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Word Forms

• charges
• charging
• charged

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