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char
2
(char)
Pronunciation:
/tʃɑː/
British
informal
noun
a charwoman.
verb
(
chars
,
charring
,
charred
)
[
no object
]
work as a charwoman:
she’d had to char and work in a grocery store to put herself through university
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