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Meaning of charge | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2 Common
t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ

Definitions

  1. A commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France.
  2. The amount of money levied for a service
  3. The amount of money levied for a service.
    countable, uncountable
  4. Ellipsis of chargé d'affaires.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  5. Ellipsis of CHARGE syndrome.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
  6. figure
  7. An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat
  8. Having control over or responsibility for: You're in charge of making the salad.
  9. An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
    countable, uncountable
  10. part, role
  11. A forceful forward movement
  12. formerly, a horse used in battle. perd حِصان، جَواد кавалерийски кон cavalo de batalha kůň (důstojnický) das Schlachtroß stridshest πολεμικό άλογο corcel sõjaratsu اسب جنگی sotaratsu cheval de bataille סוּס מִלחָמָה בְּעָבַר जंग में उपयोग होने वाला घोड़ा bojni konj harci mén kuda stríðshestur cavallo da battaglia 軍馬 군마 kovos žirgas kara zirgs strijdros stridshest rumak جنګی آس cavalo de batalha cal de luptă боевой конь vojenský kôň borbeni konj ratnikov konj stridshäst ม้าศึก cenk atı 戰馬 стро...
  13. A forceful forward movement.
    countable, uncountable
  14. actor
  15. An accusation
  16. responsible for. I'm in charge of thirty men. verantwoordelikheid مَسْؤولٌ عَن отговорен за responsável por mít na starost verantwortlich für have ansvaret for υπεύθυνος, επικεφαλής responsable de vastutusel مسئول olla vastuussa responsable de לְהִסתַעֵר प्रभारी nadzirati gondjaira van bízva vki, vmi mempertanggungjawabkan ábyrgur fyrir responsabile di ~を預かって (~을) 맡고 있는 atsakingas būt atbildīgam par bertanggungjawb untuk verantwoordelijk ha ansvar for/kommandoen over, lede odpowiedzialny za م...
  17. An accusation.
    countable, uncountable
  18. An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
    countable, uncountable
  19. swaggerer, show-off
  20. An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of
  21. in the care of someone. You can leave the children in his charge. toesig في عُهْدَةِ/ عِنايَةِ/ رِعايَةِ под грижите на sob os cuidado de v péči (koho) die Verantwortung varetægt υπό την επίβλεψη κπ. al cuidado de (kellegi) hoolde, (kellegi) hooles تحت مراقبت olla toisen hoidettavana à la garde de לְהִסתַעֵר निगरानी nadzor nad nekim gondjaira bízva penjagaan í umsjá e-s sotto la sorveglianza di, affidato a ~に預けられて (~에게) 맡긴 kieno nors globoje kāda aizgādībā jagaan onder iemands hoede i ens var...
  22. An accusation by a person or organization.
    countable, uncountable
  23. To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on: charged him with the task of watching the young swimmers.
  24. An electric charge.
    countable, uncountable
  25. To set or ask (a given amount) as a price: charges ten dollars for a haircut.
  26. The scope of someone's responsibility.
    countable, uncountable
  27. To hold financially liable; demand payment from: charged her for the balance due.
  28. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
    countable, uncountable
  29. To purchase on credit: paid cash for the stockings but charged the new coat.
  30. A load or burden; cargo.
    countable, uncountable
  31. An instruction.
    countable, uncountable
  32. To load to capacity; fill: charge a furnace with coal.
  33. A mortgage.
    countable, uncountable
  34. To make a claim of wrongdoing against; accuse or blame: The prosecutors charged him with car theft. Critics charged the writer with a lack of originality.
  35. An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
    countable, uncountable
  36. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
    countable, uncountable
  37. A measured amount of explosive.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
  38. An image displayed on an escutcheon.
    countable, uncountable
  39. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
    countable, uncountable
  40. A sort of plaster or ointment.
    countable, uncountable
  41. Weight; import; value.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
  42. A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
    countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable
  43. An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
    countable, uncountable
  44. Cannabis.
    slang, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية اتهم الأجرة شحن هاجم
Azərbaycanca dolmaq yük yükləmək
Cymraeg gwefr
Esperanto kulpigi ŝarĝi
فارسی بار
Gàidhlig luchd
Galego acusar carga cargar cobrar
עברית חיוב
Հայերեն լիցքավորել
Bahasa Indonesia beban biaya
Kurdî amo dij ker ker logo
Latina sumptus tūtēla
Lietuvių mokestis
Latviešu pildīt
Te Reo Māori amo huaki whana
Bahasa Melayu caj cas elektrik
Nederlands aanklagen lading last
Slovenčina nabíjať nabiť
Kiswahili chaji
Türkçe barut hakkı ücret

Examples

“There will be a charge of five dollars.”
“Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade”
“Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal”
“two charges of manslaughter”
“"Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time."”
“That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.”
“we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;”
“A charge often leveled against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science.”
“The child was in the nanny's charge.”
“He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.”
“The child was a charge of the nanny.”
“The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.”
“I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.”
“Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.”
“Near-synonym: emblem”
“to bring a weapon to the charge”
“many suchlike as's of great charge”
“At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.”
“It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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