char
/t͡ʃɑɹ/ verb C2- To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
- To work or hew (stone, etc.)
He/she/it chars · Past chared · Past participle chared · -ing form charing
Verb forms
- Base form
- char
- He/she/it
- chars
- Past
- chared
- Past participle
- chared
- -ing form
- charing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Therefore I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday.
She explained that she was the commissionnaire’s wife, who did the charing, and I gave her the order for the coffee.
“Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night.”
I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doctor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials ‘C.C.’ are placed before that hospital the words ‘Charing Cross’ very naturally suggest themselves.”
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