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Definition of "charge" []
- To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on: charged him with the task of watching the young swimmers. (verb-transitive)
- To set or ask (a given amount) as a price: charges ten dollars for a haircut. (verb-transitive)
- To hold financially liable; demand payment from: charged her for the balance due. (verb-transitive)
- To postpone payment on (a purchase) by recording as a debt: paid cash for the stockings but charged the new coat. (verb-transitive)
- To load to capacity; fill: charge a furnace with coal. (verb-transitive)
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Use "charge" in a sentence
- "Rechabites -- to the person whose charge they conceived so binding; and the nature and design of the charge_."
- "Verbs of _Condemning_ take -- a. The Genitive of the _charge_; as, -- pecūniae pūblicae condemnātus, _condemned (on the charge) of embezzlement_ (lit. _public money_); capitis damnātus, _condemned on a capital charge_ (lit. _on a charge involving his head_)."
- ""Do not await a charge to-day," ordered San Martin; "_but charge_ always within fifty paces!""