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Charging - English meaning

tʃɑːdʒ

Charging – definitions in English dictionary

verb

Demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied.

Usage examples:

Wedding planners may charge an hourly fee of up to £150

Synonims:

Ask in paymentAskFix a chargeFix a priceImposeLevyExpectDemandExactBillInvoice
verb

Formally accuse (someone) of something, especially an offence under law.

Usage examples:

They were charged with assault

Synonims:

Accuse ofIndict forArraign forProsecute forTry forBring to trial forPut on trial forBlame forHold accountable forImplicate inImpeach forInculpate
verb

Entrust (someone) with a task as a duty or responsibility.

Usage examples:

The committee was charged with reshaping the educational system

Synonims:

EntrustBurdenEncumberHamperSaddleTaxWeighWeigh downLoad
verb

Store electrical energy in (a battery or battery-operated device).

Usage examples:

The shaver can be charged up and used while travelling
verb

Rush forward in attack.

Usage examples:

The plan is to charge headlong at the enemy

Synonims:

RushMove quicklyStormStampedeCareerTearPushPloughSwoopDiveLungeLaunch oneselfThrow oneselfGo headlongSteamBarrel
verb

Place a heraldic bearing on.

Usage examples:

A pennant argent, charged with a cross gules
noun

A price asked for goods or services.

Usage examples:

Our standard charge for a letter is £25
noun

An accusation, typically one formally made against a prisoner brought to trial.

Usage examples:

He appeared in court on a charge of attempted murder
noun

Responsibility for the care or control of someone or something.

Usage examples:

The people in her charge are pupils and not experimental subjects
noun

The property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form.

Usage examples:

Water molecules are not only attracted to each other, but to any molecule with positive or negative…
noun

A quantity of explosive to be detonated in order to fire a gun or similar weapon.

Usage examples:

Smaller charges, fired on three minute fuses lit by hand
noun

A headlong rush forward, typically in attack.

Usage examples:

A cavalry charge
noun

A device or bearing placed on a shield or crest.

Usage examples:

The swan is found in heraldry as a charge, a crest, supporters, and as a badge.
verb

Present participle of charge

Usage examples:

How much/what do you charge for a haircut and blow-dry?, the bank charged commission to change my t…
verb

To ask an amount of money for something, especially a service or activity

Usage examples:

Charge for the local museum doesn't charge for admission., charge something for something/doing som…
verb

To record an amount that a customer has spent for them to pay at a later time, according to an agreement between a business and the customer

Usage examples:

Charge the bill to my account, please.
verb

(of the police) to make a formal statement saying that someone is accused of a crime

Usage examples:

Charge someone with something/doing something she is charged with murdering her husband., police ha…
verb

To publicly accuse someone of doing something bad

Usage examples:

Charge someone with something/doing something the newspaper article charged her with using the comp…
verb

To move forward quickly and violently, especially towards something that has caused difficulty or anger

Usage examples:

The bull lowered its horns and charged., charge at the violence began when the police charged at a …
verb

To hurry from one place to another

Usage examples:

Charge around i've been charging around all day and i'm exhausted., charge about uk i've been charg…
verb

In sports such as basketball, to run into another player in a way that is not allowed by the rules

Usage examples:

The referee blew the whistle because the forward charged the defender.
verb

To put enough explosive into a gun to fire it once

verb

To order someone to do something

Usage examples:

Be charged with he was charged with taking care of the premises.
verb

When a judge charges a jury, he or she explains the details of the law to them.

verb

To put electricity into an electrical device such as a battery

Usage examples:

She drove the car round the block to charge up its batteries., it's not working - i don't think the…

Charging translation into English

Charging: translate from English into Chinese

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收费, 炉料

Charging: translate from English into Dutch

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Opladen

Charging: translate from English into French

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Mise en charge

Charging: translate from English into German

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Aufladen

Charging: translate from English into Hindi

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चार्ज, आक्रमण, इएल्क्ट्रिक सामग्री चार्ज होना

Charging: translate from English into Italian

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Carica

Charging: translate from English into Korean

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충전 중

Charging: translate from English into Russian

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Зарядка, Зарядный, Заряжающий, Загрузочный

Charging: translate from English into Spanish

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Cargando

Word origin

Middle English (in the general senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’), from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load’, from Latin carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’

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