charge

About 55.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The amount of money levied for a service.

   There will be a charge of five dollars.

2. noun An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.

   Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade

3. noun A forceful forward movement.
4. noun An accusation.

   two charges of manslaughter

5. noun An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.

   two charges of manslaughter

6. noun An accusation by a person or organization.

   That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.

7. noun An electric charge.
8. noun The scope of someone's responsibility.

   The child was in the nanny's charge.

Similar words

consign commission mission appoint billing guardianship tutelage institutionalize send commit

Often followed by

of is and to for that on the in

Word family

charged charges charging