How to pronounce “charge”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The amount of money levied for a service.
• (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
• A forceful forward movement.
• An accusation.
• (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
• The scope of someone's responsibility.
• Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• A load or burden; cargo.
• An instruction.
• (property law) A mortgage.
• (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
• (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
• (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
• (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
• [Verb]
• To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
• (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• (transitive, dated) To sell (something) at a given price.
• (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
• To impute or ascribe.
• To call to account; to challenge.
• (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
• (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
• (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

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