- Demand payment
"Will I get charged for this service?";
- bill
- Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehaviour against
"he charged the director with indifference";
- accuse
- To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
"he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork";
- bear down
- Move quickly and violently
"He came charging into my office";
- tear [informal], shoot, shoot down, buck, bomb [Brit, informal], scream [informal]
- Pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
"Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?"
- Set or ask for a certain price
"How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
- Place a formal charge against
"The suspect was charged with murdering his wife";
- lodge, file
- Make an accusatory claim
"The defence attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
- Fill or load to capacity
"charge the wagon with hay"
- Saturate
"The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
- Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
"I need to charge my car battery"
- Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
"charge a conductor"
- Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
"She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance";
- appoint
- Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
"He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend";
- saddle, burden, lumber [Brit, informal]
- Instruct or command with authority
"The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
- Enter a certain amount as a charge
"he charged me $15"
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
"After the second episode, she had to be charged";
- commit, institutionalize, institutionalise [Brit], send
- Give over to another for care or safekeeping
"charge your baggage";
- consign
- Lie down on command, of hunting dogs
"The well-trained hunting dog charged on command"
- Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks";
- agitate, rouse, turn on, commove [archaic], excite, charge up
- Place a heraldic bearing on
"charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
- Provide (a device) with something necessary
"He charged his gun carefully";
- load
- Direct into a position for use
"He charged his weapon at me";
- level, point
- (law) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
"The judge charged the jury on how to interpret the evidence"
- Attribute responsibility to
"The tragedy was charged to her inexperience";
- blame
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offence
"he was arrested on a charge of larceny";
- complaint
- An impetuous rush toward someone or something
"the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
- The price charged for some article or service
"the admission charge"
- Request for payment of a debt
"they submitted their charges at the end of each month";
- billing
- (tax) financial liabilities (such as a tax)
"the charges against the estate"
- An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
"the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving";
- accusation
- 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";
- electric charge
- A special assignment that is given to a person or group
"his charge was to deliver a message";
- mission, commission
- Attention and management implying responsibility for safety
"he is in the charge of a bodyguard";
- care, tutelage, guardianship
- A person committed to your care
"the teacher led her charges across the street"
- A sudden pleasurable excitement
"they got a great charge out of it";
- bang, rush, flush, thrill, kick, buzz [informal]
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea, person or object
"Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge";
- cathexis
- Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
"The family's coat of arms featured a lion rampant as its heraldic charge";
- bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing
- A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
"this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains";
- burster, bursting charge, explosive charge
- A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
"the judge's charge to the jury";
- commission, direction
- The official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador
"The chargé d'affaires handled diplomatic affairs while awaiting the new ambassador's arrival"
Derived forms: charges, charging, charged
Type of: account, accuse, act, aim, alter, ascribe, asking, assertion, asseveration, assign, assignment, attack, attribute, averment, barrel [informal], belt [informal], belt along [informal], bid, bidding, bucket [informal], bucket along [informal], change, claim, command, commit, confide, cost, criminate, debit, dependant [Brit], dependent, determine, dictation, diplomat, diplomatist, direct, disturb, duty assignment, electrical phenomenon, entrust, excitement, exhilaration, explosive, fill, fill up, furnish, hasten, heraldry, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, impeach, impregnate, impute, incriminate, instruct, intrust [archaic], liabilities, libidinal energy, lie, lie down, modify, move, offer, onrush, onset, onslaught, paint, pay, pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], pleading, protection, provide, race, render, request, require, rocket [informal], rush, rush along, saturate, set, speed, step on it [informal], supply, take, take aim, train, transfer, travel rapidly, trouble, trust, upset, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal]
Part of: bill of indictment, indictment
Encyclopedia: Charge, Daniel
Chargé d'affaires