CHARGE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
charge
A special assignment that is given to a person or group.
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- A confidential mission to London.
- His charge was deliver a message.
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety.
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- He is in the care of a bodyguard.
A impetuous rush toward someone or something.
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- The wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary.
- The battle began with a cavalry charge.
A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.
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- This cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains.
Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield.
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense.
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- He was arrested on a charge of larceny.
An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence.
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- The newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving.
A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something.
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- The judge's charge to the jury.
Request for payment of a debt.
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- They submitted their charges at the end of each month.
The swift release of a store of affective force.
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- They got a great bang out of it.
- What a boot!
- He got a quick rush from injecting heroin.
- He does it for kicks.
(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object.
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- Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge.
A person committed to your care.
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- The teacher led her charges across the street.
The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons.
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- The battery needed a fresh charge.
The price charged for some article or service.
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- The admission charge.
Financial liabilities (such as a tax).
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- The charges against the estate.
Saturate.
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- The room was charged with tension and anxiety.
Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.
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- I need to charge my car battery.
Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on.
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- Charge a conductor.
Set or ask for a certain price.
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- How much do you charge for lunch?
- This fellow charges $100 for a massage.
Attribute responsibility to.
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- We blamed the accident on her.
- The tragedy was charged to her inexperience.
Instruct or command with authority.
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- The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem.
Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.
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- He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend.
Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.
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- He charged me director with indifference.
Make an accusatory claim.
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- The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased.
File a formal charge against.
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- The suspect was charged with murdering his wife.
To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle.
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- He saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.
Direct into a position for use.
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- Point a gun.
- He charged his weapon at me.
Fill or load to capacity.
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- Charge the wagon with hay.
Provide with munition.
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- He loaded his gun carefully.
Place a heraldic bearing on.
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- Charge all weapons, shields, and banners.
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.
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- The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks.
Lie down on command, of hunting dogs.
Move quickly and violently.
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- The car tore down the street.
- He came charging into my office.
Pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt.
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- Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?
Demand payment.
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- Will I get charged for this service?
- We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights.
Enter a certain amount as a charge.
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- He charged me $15.
Give over to another for care or safekeeping.
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- Consign your baggage.
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
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- After the second episode, she had to be committed.
- He was committed to prison.
Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.
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- He was appointed deputy manager.
- She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance.
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