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  • /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/ UK
  • [ˈt͡ʃʰɑːd͡ʒ] UK
  • /ˈt͡ʃäːd͡ʒ/ Australia
  • [ˈt͡ʃʰäːd͡ʒ] Australia
  • /ˈt͡ʃɐːd͡ʒ/ Australia
  • [ˈt͡ʃʰɐ̞ːd͡ʒ] Australia
  • /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒ/ US
  • [ˈt͡ʃʰɑɹd͡ʒ] US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós

Proto-Celtic *karros

Gaulish *karrosbor.

Latin carrus

Latin -ic-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -ico

Latin carricō

Late Latin carricāre

Old French chargierder.

Middle English chargen

English charge

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.

noun charges

  1. countable, uncountable The amount of money levied for a service. There will be a charge of five dollars.
  2. countable, uncountable 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
  3. countable, uncountable A forceful forward movement. 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
  4. countable, uncountable An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of. two charges of manslaughter
  5. countable, uncountable An accusation by a person or organization. That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
  6. countable, uncountable An electric charge.
  7. countable, uncountable The scope of someone's responsibility. The child was in the nanny's charge.
  8. 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.
  9. countable, uncountable A load or burden; cargo. The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
  10. countable, uncountable An instruction. I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
  11. countable, uncountable A mortgage.
  12. countable, uncountable An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  13. countable, uncountable A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
  14. broadly, countable, uncountable A measured amount of explosive. Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.
  15. countable, uncountable An image displayed on an escutcheon. Near-synonym: emblem
  16. countable, uncountable A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack. to bring a weapon to the charge
  17. countable, uncountable A sort of plaster or ointment.
  18. countable, obsolete, uncountable Weight; import; value. many suchlike as's of great charge
  19. countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
  20. countable, uncountable An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
  21. slang, uncountable Cannabis. At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.

verb charges · charging · charged

  1. To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order. Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.
  2. transitive To assign (a debit) to an account. Let's charge this to marketing.
  3. ambitransitive To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.). to charge high for goods
  4. US, transitive To pay on account, as by using a credit card. Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
  5. dated, transitive To sell (something) at a given price. to charge coal at $5 per unit
  6. transitive To formally accuse (a person) of a crime. I'm charging you with assault and battery.
  7. transitive To mortgage (a property).
  8. To impute or ascribe. No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
  9. To call to account; to challenge. to charge me to an answer
  10. transitive To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in. the charging of children's memories[…] with rules
  11. transitive To ornament with or cause to bear. to charge an architectural member with a moulding
  12. transitive To assume as a bearing. He charges three roses.
  13. transitive To add to or represent on. He charges his shield with three roses or.
  14. 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.
  15. transitive To cause to take on an electric charge. Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
  16. transitive To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet. He charged the battery overnight.
  17. intransitive, transitive To replenish energy. The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.
  18. intransitive To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.
  19. intransitive, transitive To attack by moving forward quickly in a group. The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
  20. intransitive To commit a charging foul.
  21. intransitive 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.
  22. transitive To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

CHARGE²

noun

  1. abbreviation, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of CHARGE syndrome.CHARGE syndrome

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