Word: charge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Latin carrus Latin -ic- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ico Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen English charge From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/, [ˈt͡ʃʰɑːd͡ʒ], /ˈt͡ʃäːd͡ʒ/, [ˈt͡ʃʰäːd͡ʒ], /ˈt͡ʃɐːd͡ʒ/ 1. The amount of money levied for a service. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There will be a charge of five dollars. Example: There is a cancellation charge if you withdraw your order. 2. An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade 3. A forceful forward movement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal 4. An accusation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: two charges of manslaughter Example: "Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time." 5. An accusation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust. Example: we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge; 6. An electric charge. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The scope of someone's responsibility. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The child was in the nanny's charge. Example: He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person. 8. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The child was a charge of the nanny. 9. A load or burden; cargo. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings. 10. An instruction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month. 11. A mortgage. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A measured amount of explosive. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that. 15. An image displayed on an escutcheon. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: emblem 16. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to bring a weapon to the charge 17. A sort of plaster or ointment. Labels: countable, uncountable 18. Weight; import; value. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: many suchlike as's of great charge 19. A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre. Labels: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable 20. An address given at a church service concluding a visitation. Labels: countable, uncountable 21. Cannabis. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know. Example: It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window.