Charge (Noun)
Meaning 1
Financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate".
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Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
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Meaning 2
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 3
(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge".
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Nouns denoting goals.
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Meaning 4
Request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 5
A person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street".
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 6
A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 7
A special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 8
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 9
An impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 10
Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 11
The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons; "the battery needed a fresh charge".
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Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
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Meaning 12
An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving".
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Meaning 13
The price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge".
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Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
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Meaning 14
The swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks".
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Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
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Meaning 15
A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.