[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

charge \charge\, n. f. charge, fr. charger to load. see
   charge, v. t., and cf. cargo, caricature.
   1. a load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
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   2. a person or thing commited or intrusted to the care,
      custody, or management of another; a trust.
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   note: the people of a parish or church are called the charge
         of the clergyman who is set over them.
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   3. custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office;
      responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
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            'tis a great charge to come under one body's hand.
                                                  --shak.
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   4. heed; care; anxiety; trouble. obs. --chaucer.
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   5. harm. obs. --chaucer.
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   6. an order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
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            the king gave cherge concerning absalom. --2. sam.
                                                  xviii. 5.
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   7. an address esp. an earnest or impressive address
      containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a
      judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
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   8. an accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation;
      indictment; specification of something alleged.
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            the charge of confounding very different classes of
            phenomena.                            --whewell.
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   9. whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents,
      taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in
      the plural.
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   10. the price demanded for a thing or service.
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   11. an entry or a account of that which is due from one party
       to another; that which is debited in a business
       transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
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   12. that quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel,
       etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace,
       machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold,
       or which is actually in it at one time
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   13. the act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden
       onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the
       signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
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             never, in any other war afore, gave the romans a
             hotter charge upon the enemies.      --holland.
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             the charge of the light brigade.     --tennyson.
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   14. a position of a weapon fitted for attack; as, to bring
       a weapon to the charge.
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   15. far. a sort of plaster or ointment.
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   16. her. a bearing. see bearing, n., 8.
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   17. cf. charre. thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig
       weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
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   18. weight; import; value.
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             many suchlike "as's" of great charge. --shak.
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   back charge. see under back, a.

   bursting charge.
       a mil. the charge which bursts a shell, etc.
       b mining a small quantity of fine powder to secure
           the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in
           blasting.

   charge and discharge equity practice, the old mode or
      form of taking an account before a master in chancery.

   charge sheet, the paper on which are entered at a police
      station all arrests and accusations.

   to sound the charge, to give the signal for an attack.

   syn: care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost;
        price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command;
        order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment.
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see also:
charge cargo caricature bearing charre charre 
back charge back bursting charge charge and discharge charge sheet 
to sound the charge 

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