Word Finder - charges

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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)

The soldiers handed up the charges, turned, loaded, and did their business with strained smartness.

Don't be too hasty—till you know the charges.

He mentioned the term kidnapping, but of course being the saint he is he wouldn't press charges against his wife who according to him was just temporarily disturbed.

Governor Ames, when the impeachment charges against him were dismissed on the 29th of March 1876, immediately resigned.

Mendoza undertook to conquer and settle the territory at his own charges, certain profits being reserved to the crown.

Suffice it to say that differences with Irala eventually led to his arrest, and to his being sent back to Spain to answer to the charges brought against him for maladministration.

The indirect taxes comprise the charges on registration; stamps; customs; and a group of taxes specially described as indirect taxes.

The municipality has to pay the Cost of building, furnishing and upkeep. At the head of the lyce is the principal (proviseur), an official nominated by the minister, and assisted by a teaching staff of professors and charges de cours or teachers of somewhat lower standing.

As provided by the law of 1900 all local charges are borne by the colonies-supplemented at need by grants in aidbut the military expenses are borne by the state.

But all land was sold subject to its fixed charges.

The king, however, could free land from these charges by charter, which was a frequent way of rewarding those who deserved well of the state.

There were also extra charges under contingent regulations of great complexity, which commonly added 50 per cent.

The relative backwardness of telegraphy in Great Britain was attributed to high charges made by the companies and to restricted facilities.

The reforms which it was to bring about were eagerly and impatiently demanded by the public. This great operation had to be effected without interrupting the public service, and the department had immediately to reduce and to simplify the charges for transmission throughout the kingdom.

The following year the rates to and from East and South Africa were reduced, by negotiation, from charges varying from 7s.

The message-rate system equalizes the charges according to the service rendered.

A reduction has been made in the charges for trunk calls at night, and calls for single periods of three minutes are allowed at half the ordinary rates between 7 p.m.

Free intercommunication was established by the agreement between the subscribers of the company and those of the Post Office, and a scale of charges was adopted or arranged to be agreed as binding on both the Post Office and the company.

Inasmuch as the debenture stocks and preference shares would have to be redeemed in 1911 at premiums ranging from 3 to 5 per cent., the state would have to pay the company £253,000 in excess of the total of the outstanding securities in order to enable the ordinary shares to receive par, and in the council's view this payment would diminish the p robability of the Post Office being able to afford a substantial reduction in the telephone charges.

This shows that charges, often involving preliminary imprisonment, are brought against an excessive proportion of persons who either are not or cannot be proved to be guilty.

In spite of the gravity of the charges formulated against many prominent men, the report merely deplored and disapproved of their conduct, without proposing penal proceedings.

He was voted guilty by the Commons; but while the Lords were disputing whether the accused peer should have bail, and whether the charges amounted to more than a misdemeanour, parliament was prorogued on the 30th of December and dissolved three weeks later.

When he was made cognizant of the charges against Catherine Howard, his duty to communicate them to the king was obvious, though painful.

Nearly half the ex- penditure goes to meet debt charges, while government, internal development and defence absorb most of the remainder.

It is to be observed, moreover, that as Alembert confined himself chiefly to mathematical articles, his work laid him less open to charges of heresy and infidelity than that of some of his associates.

Naturally the company named does not reach all of these points, but its line across the Andes supplies the indispensable link of communication, in the absence of which the east coast towns and the west coast towns have hitherto been as widely separated as if they had been located on different continents-indeed, far more widely separated in point of time and of freight charges than Great Britain and the United States.

There has been also a further attempt in England to divide terminal charges into station and service terminals, according to the nature of the work for which compensation is sought.

A system of charges which compels each piece of traffic to pay its share of the charges for track and for stations overlooks the fundamental fact that a very large part of the expenses of a railway - more than half - is not connected either with the cost of moving traffic or of handling traffic at stations, but with the cost of maintaining the property as a whole.

Besides the system of charges thus prescribed in the classification and rate-sheet, each tariff provides for a certain number of special rates or charges made for particular lines of trade in certain localities, independently of their relation to the general system.

If these special rates are published in the tariff, and are offered to all persons alike, provided they can fulfil the conditions imposed by the company, they are known as commodity rates, and are apparently a necessity in any scheme of railway charges.

But the extra charges levied for the use of parlour, sleeping and other special cars, of which some of the best trains are exclusively composed, in practice constitute a differentiation of class, besides making the real cost of travelling higher than the figures just given.

A charge of heresy was brought against him, but he escaped to France, and established himself as a merchant at Rouen or Dieppe, where he lived un - molested until his death in 1553, although attempts were made by the Scottish community there to bring further charges against him.

The most foolish and discreditable was certainly that of Davies; his unworthy attempt to depreciate the great historian's learning, and his captious, cavilling, acrimonious charges of petty inaccuracies and discreditable falsification gave the object of his attack an easy triumph.

The $7,000,000 saved in this manner has doubtless been more than offset by the additional interest charges on subsequent loans, due to the loss of public confidence.

The Democrats carried the legislature in 1875, and preferred impeachment charges against Governor Adelbert Ames.

The toleration edicts of Galerius and of Constantine and Licinius were published during his pontificate, which was also marked by the holding of the Lateran synod in Rome (313) at which Caecilianus, bishop of Carthage, was acquitted of the charges brought against him and Donatus condemned.

It was the period of the agitation for the abolition of slavery in England, where Philip's charges against the colonists and the colonial government found powerful support.

Leases frequently contain a covenant by the lessee to bear and pay rates, taxes, assessments and other " impositions " or " charges," or " duties " or " outgoings," or " burdens " (except property tax) imposed upon the demised premises during the term.

Considerable difficulty has arisen as to the scope of the terms " impositions," " charges," " duties," " outgoings," " burdens."

The richest proprietor in the Holy Land,' but practically immune from any charges on its property, the Church helped, unconsciously, to ruin the kingdom which it should have supported above all others.

His duties are described in detail by the king's regulations, but may be summed up as consisting of seeing that the charges are in order, pointing out any informalities or defects in the charges or in the constitution of the court, seeing that any witness required by prosecutor or prisoner is summoned, keeping the minutes of the proceedings, advising on matters of law which arise at any time after the warrant for the courtmartial is issued, drawing up the findings and sentence, and forwarding the minutes when completed to the admiralty.

His name occurs as an element in Carthaginian proper names (Hannibal, Hasdrubal, &c.), and a tablet found at Marseilles still survives to inform us of the charges made by the priests of the temple of Baal for offering sacrifices.

But, always ready to obey authority, Ignatius was able to disarm any charges that, now and at other times, were brought against him.

These charges he met successfully by insisting that the nuncio should thoroughly inquire into the matter.

Combination was associated with the coalescence of these charges, and the nature of the resulting compound showed the nature of the residual electricity.

In the wars of Alexander the phalanx was never the most active arm; Alexander delivered his telling attacks with his cavalry, whereas the slow-moving phalanx held rather the position of a reserve, and was brought up to complete a victory when the cavalry charges had already taken effect.

About this time serious charges were brought against him.

Under the former there were a few charges of plotting against the government.

This second writer singles out three of the Maccabean priest kings for attack, the first of whom he charges with every abomination; the people itself, he declares, is apostate, and chastisement will follow speedily - the temple will be laid waste, the nation carried afresh into captivity, whence, on their repentance, God will restore them again to their own land, where they shall enjoy the blessedness of God's presence and be ruled by a Messiah sprung from Judah.

His writings, which are chiefly theological and controversial, are largely formed of charges to his clergy, and sermons on different topics; but, though valuable and full of thought, they lose some of their force by the cumbrous German structure of the sentences, and by certain orthographical peculiarities in which the author indulged.