Definitions for charges

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charges charge

Spelling: [chahrj]

IPA: /tʃɑrdʒ/

Charges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in charges (aceghrs).

Definitions for charges

noun

1. expense or cost:
2. a fee or price charged:
3. a pecuniary burden, encumbrance, tax, or lien; cost; expense; liability to pay:
4. an entry in an account of something due.
5. an impetuous onset or attack, as of soldiers.
6. a signal by bugle, drum, etc., for a military charge.
7. a duty or responsibility laid upon or entrusted to one.
8. care, custody, or superintendence:
9. anything or anybody committed to one's care or management:
10. Ecclesiastical. a parish or congregation committed to the spiritual care of a pastor.
11. a command or injunction; exhortation.
12. an accusation:
13. Law. an address by a judge to a jury at the close of a trial, instructing it as to the legal points, the weight of evidence, etc., affecting the verdict in the case.
14. the quantity of anything that an apparatus is fitted to hold, or holds, at one time:
15. a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.
16. Electricity. electric charge. the process of charging a storage battery.
17. Slang. a thrill; kick.
18. Rocketry. grains of a solid propellant, usually including an inhibitor.
19. a load or burden.
20. Heraldry. any distinctive mark upon an escutcheon, as an ordinary or device, not considered as belonging to the field; bearing.
21. a chargé d'affaires.

Idioms

1. in charge, in command; having supervisory power. British. under arrest; in or into the custody of the police.
2. in charge of, having the care or supervision of: Also, in the charge of. under the care or supervision of:

Verb phrases

1. charge off, to write off as an expense or loss. to attribute to:
2. charge up, Informal. to agitate, stimulate, or excite: to put or be under the influence of narcotic drugs.

verb (used with object)

1. to impose or ask as a price or fee:
2. to impose on or ask of (someone) a price or fee:
3. to defer payment for (a purchase) until a bill is rendered by the creditor:
4. to hold liable for payment; enter a debit against.
5. to attack by rushing violently against:
6. to accuse formally or explicitly (usually followed by with):
7. to impute; ascribe the responsibility for:
8. to instruct authoritatively, as a judge does a jury.
9. to lay a command or injunction upon:
10. to fill or furnish (a thing) with the quantity, as of powder or fuel, that it is fitted to receive:
11. to supply with a quantity of electric charge or electrical energy:
12. to change the net amount of positive or negative electric charge of (a particle, body, or system).
13. to suffuse, as with emotion:
14. to fill (air, water, etc.) with other matter in a state of diffusion or solution:
15. Metallurgy. to load (materials) into a furnace, converter, etc.
16. to load or burden (the mind, heart, etc.):
17. to put a load or burden on or in.
18. to record the loan of, as books or other materials from a library (often followed by out):
19. to borrow, as books or other materials from a library (often followed by out):
20. Heraldry. to place charges on (an escutcheon).

verb (used without object)

1. to make an onset; rush, as to an attack.
2. to place the price of a thing to one's debit.
3. to require payment:
4. to make a debit, as in an account.
5. (of dogs) to lie down at command.

Origin of charges

1175-1225; 1950-55 for def 39; (v.) Middle English chargen Anglo-French, Old French charg(i)er Late Latin carricāre to load a wagon, equivalent to carr(us) wagon (see car<

Examples for charges

In the last of a series of videos uploaded to YouTube that day, Brown threatened the FBI agent in charge of his case.

This was very blunt and surprising to hear from any official in charge of an aviation disaster.

I was convicted a year later and sentenced to death—a charge later overturned by the Supreme Court when it called for a retrial.

Men, particularly white, heterosexual men, are undeniably in charge.

That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.

Giles was their “ancient” and had charge of the banner, nor could it be doubted that he had flourished.

His great failing was that he exaggerated--no tale ever losing anything in his charge.

I am sure the injury you speak of could not have happened when he was in charge.

I should like to meet him face to face, and charge him with his treachery.

No, I couldn't help it, but still it wouldn't have happened if it had not been in my charge.