charge
/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒ/ verb B1- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- To assign (a debit) to an account. · Let's charge this to marketing.· The law firm's billings are up this month: she's charged 1,000 billing hours to that case.
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.). · to charge high for goods· I won't charge you for the wheat.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card. · Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?· Can I charge this purchase?
- To sell (something) at a given price. · to charge coal at $5 per unit
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime. · I'm charging you with assault and battery.
- To mortgage (a property).
- To impute or ascribe.
He/she/it charges · Past charged · Past participle charged · -ing form charging
Verb forms
- Base form
- charge
- He/she/it
- charges
- Past
- charged
- Past participle
- charged
- -ing form
- charging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Morrel; “but still he is charged——”
But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge.
“‘The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and the religious institutions of his country, that one named Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been the bearer of a letter from Murat to the usurper, and again taken charge of another letter from the usurper to the Bonapartist club in Paris.
The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number.
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