Word Finder - charge

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The amount of money levied for a service.

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There will be a charge of five dollars.

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A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

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Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.

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A forceful forward movement.

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An accusation.

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That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.

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An electric charge.

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The scope of someone's responsibility.

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The child was in the nanny's charge.

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Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

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The child was a charge of the nanny.

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A load or burden; cargo.

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The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.

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An instruction.

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

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An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

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A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.

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An image displayed on an escutcheon.

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A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

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to bring a weapon to the charge

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A sort of plaster or ointment.

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Weight; import; value.

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A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

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An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

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To assign a duty or responsibility to

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To assign (a debit) to an account

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Let's charge this to marketing.

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To pay on account, as by using a credit card

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Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?

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To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)

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I won't charge you for the wheat

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(possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.

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to charge coal at $5 per unit

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To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

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I'm charging you with assault and battery.

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To impute or ascribe

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To call to account; to challenge

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To place a burden or load on or in

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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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Charge your weapons; we're moving up.

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To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback

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(of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

I will be in charge of your initiation.

Before she could object, Kiki took charge again.

I want you to start learning what it means to be in charge of something.

Besides, after he inherited, he could always put someone in charge of the estate.

Quinn took charge of our working accommodations.

You've already put the charge through?

He's like a modern-day king who's in charge of the superheroes trying to beat down the evil villains.

Katie, my brother Tamer, who's in charge of Africa, Kris grated.

It could jump up and charge you.

Irv Goldman was in charge of their ill-conceived venture while it was running, so their switch board tells me.

Miss Watkins, the lady who has charge of her wrote me a most interesting letter.

They're leaving a fool named Arnie in charge here.

And there's no charge.

After telling me the contest was over, something I'd just told her, she reluctantly transferred me to Irv Goldman who was in charge of the contest while it was running.

The John Wayne look-alike with the big belly was in charge and held up his hand for attention.

He traced Edith's charge slip.

I can get each of you two sets of ID, birth certificate, passport, driver's license, charge cards and a brief history that will check out.

Jenn sensed the next vamp charge her and spun, burying her knife in the neck of the nearest before she lashed out with a kick at the next.

Matters of warrants and probable cause escaped his wife's rationale, replaced by her conscience, which stood firmly in charge.

He'd lived in Tokyo before Rhyn dragged him to the castle as his charge d'affairs.

He must have traced her by the charge slip so he knows she came here.

Claire was a peanut butter blonde, gone grey, tall and well dressed, all business and definitely in charge.

She turned to Claire, as if acknowledging she was in charge.

Cynthia asked when Ryland mentioned there was no charge.

He was in the area and the police took a good look at him from the information I have but there wasn't enough evidence to charge him.

Granted, he was Death, and she was offering a partnership running the underworld instead of deferring to him in his role in charge of the underworld.

She felt secure knowing that he was in charge.

It was probably silly of me to believe Jerome could find me, just from one little charge card transaction.

But whereas, from its construction, the Siemens furnace was intermittent in operation, necessitating stoppage of the current while the contents of the crucible were poured out, many of the newer forms are specially designed either to minimize the time required in effecting the withdrawal of one charge and the introduction of the next, or to ensure absolute continuity of action, raw material being constantly charged in at the top and the finished substance and by-products (slag, &c.) withdrawn either continuously or at intervals, as sufficient quantity shall have accumulated.

So large a part of the railway charge is of the nature of a tax, that there seem to be a priori reasons for leaving the taxing powers in the hands of the agents of the government.

The trustees were required and empowered to maintain, repair and improve the roads committed to their charge, and the expenses of the trust were met by tolls levied on persons using the road.

After he had left, the camp, in charge of Col.

The capacity of the tank depends on the power required and the distance to be traversed by a single charge of air.

This danger can be reached only in small degree by laws and inspection; but the safety of the men must depend upon the skill and care of the miners themselves and the officers in charge of the underground work.

The Ottoman higher command was well content that the troops under its charge should maintain an attitude of passive defence; they were keeping Allied divisions in idleness which, were they to be transferred to some other one of the theatres of war, might prove invaluable assets to the cause of the Entente.

That at Helles (which included the French contingent, still as at the outset on the right) was under the charge of Gen.

Monro found himself responsible for the British troops at Salonika as well as for the Allied army of the Dardanelles, he placed the latter under charge of Gen.

In 1849 he was placed in charge of the Philological Seminary at Prague, and two years later was appointed professor of classical philology in Prague University.

This body was to have control of Indian affairs, impose taxes, nominate all civil officers, authorize the opening of new lands to settlement, and in general have charge of colonial defence, and of the enlistment, equipment and maintenance of an army.

Subordinate to the deputy commissioners are assistant commissioners, extra-assistant commissioners and myooks, who are invested with various magisterial, civil and revenue powers, and hold charge of the townships, as the units of regular civil and revenue jurisdiction are called, and the sub-divisions of districts, into which most of these townships are grouped.

In almost every village in the province there is a monastery, where the most regular occupation of one or more of the resident pongyis, or Buddhist monks, is the instruction free of charge of the children of the village.

Alompra, left by the conqueror in charge of the village of M6tshobo, planned the deliverance of his country.

Guru Arjan, who was in charge of the great Sikh temple at Amritsar, received copious offerings and became a man of wealth and influence, while the sixth guru became a military leader, and was frequently at warfare with the Mogul authorities.

Column 3 shows the charge causing a permanent elongation of 0.05 mm.

A marble obelisk marks the spot where the 21st Lancers made a charge.

Along with his six brethren, Ken was committed to the Tower on the 8th of June 1688, on a charge of high misdemeanour; the trial, which took place on the 29th and 30th of the month, and which resulted in a verdict of acquittal, is matter of history.

In 1739 the General Assembly, without any application from him, removed the sentence of deposition which had been passed against him, and restored him to the character and function of a minister of the gospel of Christ, but not that of a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, declaring that he was not eligible for a charge until he should have renounced principles inconsistent with the constitution of the church.

He graduated at Western Reserve College in 1864 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1869; preached in Edinburg, Ohio, in 1869-1871, and in the Spring Street Congregational Church of Milwaukee in 5875-5879; and was professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College in 58 791881, and Clark professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Yale from 1881 till 5905, when he took charge of the graduate department of philosophy and psychology; he became professor emeritus in 1905.

Thus we hear of a custos palatinae capellae who was in charge of the palace chapel relics, and guarded them in the field; the chief of these custodes was sometimes called the archicapellanus.

In 1358 the parte Guelfa made these enactments still more stringent, punishing with death or heavy fines all who being Ghibellines held office, and provided that if trustworthy witnesses were forthcoming condemnations might be passed for this offence without hearing the accused; even a non-proved charge or an ammonizione (warning not to accept office) might entail disfranchisement.