charge

verb

• 1demand (an amount) as a price from someone for a service rendered or goods supplied:the restaurant charged $15 for dinner [with two objects]:he charged me 2 euros for the postcard [no object]:museums should charge for admission
• (charge something to) record the cost of something as an amount payable by (someone) or on (an account):they charge the calls to their credit-card accounts

• 2accuse (someone) of something, especially an offense under law:they were charged with assault
• [with clause] make an accusation or assertion that:opponents charged that below-cost pricing would reduce safety
• Law accuse someone of (an offense).

• 3entrust (someone) with a task as a duty or responsibility:the committee was charged with reshaping the educational system

• 4store electrical energy in (a battery or battery-operated device):the shaver can be charged up and used while traveling
• [no object] (of a battery or battery-operated device) receive and store electrical energy.
• load or fill (a container, gun, etc.) to the full or proper extent:will you see to it that your glasses are charged?
• fill or pervade (something) with a quality or emotion:the air was charged with menace

• 5 [no object] rush forward in attack:the plan is to charge headlong at the enemy
• rush aggressively toward (someone or something) in attack.
• [with adverbial of direction] move quickly and with impetus:Henry charged up the staircase

• 6 Heraldry place a heraldic bearing on:a pennant argent, charged with a cross gules

noun

• 1a price asked for goods or services:an admission charge
• a financial liability or commitment:an asset of $550,000 should have been taken as a charge on earnings

• 2an accusation, typically one formally made against a prisoner brought to trial:he appeared in court on a charge of attempted murder three people were arrested but released without charge

• 3the responsibility of taking care or control of someone or something:the people in her charge are pupils and not experimental subjects
• a person or thing entrusted to the care of someone:the babysitter watched over her charges
• dated a responsibility or onerous duty assigned to someone.
• an official instruction, especially one given by a judge to a jury regarding points of law.

• 4the property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form.
• the quantity of matter responsible for electrical phenomena carried by a body.
• energy stored chemically for conversion into electricity.
• an act or process of storing electrical energy in a battery.
• [in singular] informal a thrill:I get a real charge out of working hard

• 5a quantity of explosive to be detonated, typically in order to fire a gun or similar weapon.

• 6a headlong rush forward, typically one made by attacking soldiers in battle:a cavalry charge

• 7 Heraldry a device or bearing placed on a shield or crest.