charge
/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒ/ noun B1- The amount of money levied for a service. · There will be a charge of five dollars.· There is a cancellation charge if you withdraw your order.
- An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat. · Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
- A forceful forward movement.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of. · two charges of manslaughter
- An accusation by a person or organization. · That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
- An electric charge.
- The scope of someone's responsibility. · The child was in the nanny's charge.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher. · The child was a charge of the nanny.
Plural charges
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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 marks in the road showed me that the horse had wandered on in a way which would have been impossible had there been anyone in charge of it.
“‘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.
Morrel, all the forms were got over; in a word I was, as I told you, at my marriage feast; and I should have been married in an hour, and tomorrow I intended to start for Paris, had I not been arrested on this charge which you as well as I now see to be unjust.”
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