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Charge is the price that you have to pay to buy goods or services. (noun)

An example of a charge is the amount you pay for phone service.

Charge is a formal accusation made against someone, often in criminal court. (noun)

An example of charge is the legal proceeding when someone is formally accused of murder.

To charge is to assess someone a certain fee for goods or services. It can also refer to the act of paying that fee using a credit card. (verb)

An example of charge is when a restaurant asks for $5 in exchange for french fries.
An example of charge is when you pay for your french fries using your Visa card.

An example of charge is when you accuse someone formally of something, especially in criminal proceedings. (verb)

An example of charge is when a prosecutor formally accuses someone of murder.

See charge in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb charged, charging

Obsolete to put a load on or in to load or fill to capacity or with the usual amount of required material to load (a firearm, cannon, etc.) to saturate (one substance) with another: air charged with steam to add carbon dioxide to (water, etc.)☆ to add an electrical charge to (a battery, etc.)
to load a burden on; give as a task, duty, etc. to; make responsible for: a nurse was charged with the care of the child to give instructions to or command authoritatively: to charge a jury to accuse of wrongdoing; censure: he charged her with negligence
1. to put liability on (a person)
2. to make liable for (an error, etc.)
to ask as a price or fee: to charge a dollar for alterations
1. to record as a debt against a person's name or account: to charge a purchase
2. ☆ to make a record of (something borrowed): to charge a library book
3. to pay for by using credit, usually by presenting a credit card
to bear down on or set upon with force; attack vigorously to bring (a gun or other weapon) to bear on; level; directHeraldry to place a bearing on

intransitive verb

to crouch or squat when a command is given: said of dogs
to ask payment (for): to charge for a service
to attack vigorously or move forward as if attacking

noun

a load or burden the maximum or necessary quantity, as of fuel, that a container or apparatus is built to hold; also, the actual quantity held
1. the amount of electrical energy stored in a battery, capacitor, etc.
2. the departure from electrical neutrality at a point, or in a region, as by the accumulation, or deficit, of electrical particles: more electrons than normal produce a negative charge; fewer, a positive charge
a cartridge or shell, or the amount of gunpowder needed to discharge a firearm or set off an explosive device☆ Slang pleasurable excitement; thrill
responsibility or duty (of): to take charge of finances care, custody, or supervision (of) a person or thing entrusted to someone's care instruction or command, esp. instruction in points of law given by a judge to a jury accusation; indictment: charges of cruelty
the cost or price of an article, service, etc. a liability to pay money; debt; expense
1. ☆ charge account
2. a debit entered in an account
an attack with great force and speed; onslaught; onset the signal for thisHeraldry a bearing

See charge in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(chärj)

verb charged charged, charg·ing, charg·es

verb, transitive

To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on: charged him with the task of watching the young swimmers.
To set or ask (a given amount) as a price: charges ten dollars for a haircut.
To hold financially liable; demand payment from: charged her for the balance due.
To postpone payment on (a purchase) by recording as a debt: paid cash for the stockings but charged the new coat.
a. To load to capacity; fill: charge a furnace with coal.
b. To saturate; impregnate: The atmosphere was charged with tension.
To load (a gun or other firearm) with a quantity of explosive: charged the musket with powder.
To instruct or urge authoritatively; command: charged her not to reveal the source of information.
Law To instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
To make a claim of wrongdoing against; accuse or blame: The police charged him with car theft. Critics charged the writer with a lack of originality.
To put the blame for; attribute or impute: charged the accident to the driver's inexperience.
To attack violently: The troops charged the enemy line.
Basketball To bump or run into (a defender) illegally while in possession of the ball or having just made a pass or shot.
Sports
a. To bump (an opponent) so as to knock off balance or gain control of the ball, as in soccer.
b. To body-check (an opponent) illegally, from behind or after taking more than two strides, as in ice hockey.
Electricity
a. To cause formation of a net electric charge on or in (a conductor, for example).
b. To energize (a storage battery) by passing current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.
To excite; rouse: a speaker who knows how to charge up a crowd.
To direct or put (a weapon) into position for use; level.
Heraldry To place a charge on (an escutcheon).

verb, intransitive

To rush forward in or as if in a violent attack: dogs trained to charge at intruders; children charging through the house.
To demand or ask payment: did not charge for the second cup of coffee.
To postpone payment for a purchase.
Accounting To consider or record as a loss. Often used with off.

noun

a. Expense; cost.
b. The price asked for something: no charge for window-shopping.
a. A weight or burden; a load: a freighter relieved of its charge of cargo.
b. The quantity that a container or apparatus can hold.
A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.
An assigned duty or task; a responsibility: The commission's charge was to determine the facts.
One that is entrusted to another's care or management: the baby sitter's three young charges.
a. Supervision; management: the scientist who had overall charge of the research project.
b. Care; custody: a child put in my charge.
An order, command, or injunction.
Law Instruction given by a judge to a jury about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
A claim of wrongdoing; an accusation: a charge of murder; pleaded not guilty to the charges.
a. A rushing, forceful attack: repelled the charge of enemy troops; the charge of a herd of elephants.
b. The command to attack: The bugler sounded the charge.
A debt or an entry in an account recording a debt: Are you paying cash or is this a charge?
A financial burden, such as a tax or lien.
Symbol q Physics
a. The intrinsic property of matter responsible for all electric phenomena, in particular for the force of the electromagnetic interaction, occurring in two forms arbitrarily designated negative and positive.
b. A measure of this property.
c. The net measure of this property possessed by a body or contained in a bounded region of space.
Informal A feeling of pleasant excitement; a thrill: got a real charge out of the movie.
Heraldry Any figure or device represented on the field of an escutcheon.