charge
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～ an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
charge
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～ an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"
charge
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～ a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street"
charge
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～ (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
charge
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～ a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury"
charge
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～ heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
charge card
— Noun
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～ a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered; "do you take plastic?"
charge account
— Noun
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～ credit extended by a business to a customer
charge
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～ the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons; "the battery needed a fresh charge"
charge
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～ request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
charge
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～ (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
charge
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～ the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
charge
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～ the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"
charge
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～ attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
charge
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～ a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"
charge
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～ a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"
carrying charge
— Noun
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～ charge made for carrying an account or for merchandise sold on an installment plan
carrying charge
— Noun
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～ the opportunity cost of unproductive assets; the expense incurred by ownership
chargeable
— Adjective
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～ liable to be accused, or cause for such liability; "the suspect was chargeable"; "an indictable offense"
charged
— Adjective
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～ capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy; "the highly charged issue of abortion"