charge Meaning and Definition

1. n. a special assignment that is given to a person or group

2. n. attention and management implying responsibility for safety

3. n. a impetuous rush toward someone or something

4. n. a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time

5. n. heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

6. n. (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense

7. n. an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence

8. n. a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

9. n. request for payment of a debt

10. n. the swift release of a store of affective force

11. n. (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object

12. n. a person committed to your care

13. n. the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons

14. n. the price charged for some article or service

15. n. financial liabilities (such as a tax)

16. v. saturate

17. v. energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge

18. v. cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on

19. v. set or ask for a certain price

20. v. attribute responsibility to

21. v. instruct or command with authority

22. v. instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence

23. v. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

24. v. blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against

25. v. make an accusatory claim

26. v. file a formal charge against

27. v. to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle

28. v. direct into a position for use

29. v. fill or load to capacity

30. v. provide with munition

31. v. place a heraldic bearing on

32. v. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

33. v. lie down on command, of hunting dogs

34. v. move quickly and violently

35. v. pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt

36. v. demand payment

37. v. enter a certain amount as a charge

38. v. give over to another for care or safekeeping

39. v. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

40. v. assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to