Definitions For Charge

noun

• A special assignment that is given to a person or group
• Attention and management implying responsibility for safety
• An impetuous rush toward someone or something
• A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
• Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
• (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
• An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
• A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
• Request for payment of a debt
• The swift release of a store of affective force
• (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
• A person committed to your care
• The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
• The price charged for some article or service
• Financial liabilities (such as a tax)
• An amount of electricity
• The amount of an explosive material (such as dynamite) that is used in a single blast
• The responsibility of managing or watching over something

verb

• Saturate
• Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
• Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
• Set or ask for a certain price
• Attribute responsibility to
• Instruct or command with authority
• Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
• Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
• Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
• Make an accusatory claim
• File a formal charge against
• To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
• Direct into a position for use
• Fill or load to capacity
• Provide (a device) with something necessary
• Place a heraldic bearing on
• Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
• Lie down on command, of hunting dogs
• Move quickly and violently
• Pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
• Demand payment
• Enter a certain amount as a charge
• Give over to another for care or safekeeping
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
• Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
• To give an amount of electricity to (something) : to put electricity into a battery so that a machine or device will run
• To give a job or responsibility to (a person or group) : to make (a person or group) responsible for something
• To formally accuse (someone) of a crime