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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.