chargeable

adjective more chargeable · most chargeable

1. Able to be charged. The battery is chargeable by means of this device.
2. of expenses etc. That may be charged to an account. In summary, the variation of a lease for consideration is generally chargeable to SDLT.
3. rare Liable to be accused (either formally or informally). Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder.
4. of an offense That one may be legally charged with. Seferian states in the order that he agrees with Carter and the other charging parties that "the actions taken by Sister Levy have had and will continue to have the adverse effects on the union complained of by the charging parties." But Seferian found that Levy committed no chargeable offense since
5. Imputable 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.
6. archaic Expensive. A gentleman threatening to go to law, was dissuaded from it by his friends, who desired him to consider, for the law was chargeable.