charge

IPA: tʃˈɑrdʒ

The amount of money levied for a service.
(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
A forceful forward movement.
An accusation.
An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
An accusation by a person or organization.
(electromagnetism, chemistry) An electric charge.
The scope of someone's responsibility.
Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
A load or burden; cargo.
An instruction.
(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
(by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
(farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
(obsolete) Weight; import; value.
(historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
(slang, uncountable) Cannabis.

To assign a duty or responsibility to.
(transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
(transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
(transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
(dated) To sell at a given price.
(law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
To impute or ascribe.
To call to account; to challenge.
(transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
To ornament with or cause to bear.
(heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
(heraldry) To add to or represent on.
(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.
(transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
(transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
(intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
(intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
(military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
(basketball) To commit a charging foul.
(cricket, of a batsman) 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.
(transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

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