charge
- Noun. The scope of someone's responsibility.
- Noun. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- Noun. A load or burden; cargo.
- Noun. The amount of money levied for a service.
- Noun. An instruction.
- Noun. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- Noun. An accusation.
- Noun. An electric charge.
- Noun. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Noun. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
- Noun. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Noun. A forceful forward movement.
- Verb. (transitive) To place a burden upon.
- Verb. (transitive) To assign a duty to.
- Verb. (transitive) To formally accuse of a crime.
- Verb. (transitive) To require payment (for goods, services, etc.) of.
- Verb. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- Verb. (transitive) To pay on account, (n-g, as) by using a credit card.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- Verb. (transitive) To add energy to (a battery).
- Verb. (transitive) To add energy to a battery within.
- Verb. (intransitive, of a) To gain energy.
- Verb. (intransitive, of a) To have a battery within gain energy.
- Verb. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat, on horseback or both.
- Verb. (military, transitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- Verb. (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- Verb. (cricket, of a) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- Verb. (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.
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