Meaning

• The amount of money levied for a service.

  "There will be a charge of five dollars."

• A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

  "Pickett did not die leading his famous charge."

• A forceful forward movement.

• An accusation.

  "That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust."

• An electric charge.

• The scope of someone's responsibility.

  "The child was in the nanny's charge."

• Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

  "The child was a charge of the nanny."

• A load or burden; cargo.

  "The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings."

• An instruction.

  "I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month."

• An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

• A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.

• An image displayed on an escutcheon.

• A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

  "to bring a weapon to the charge"

• A sort of plaster or ointment.

• Weight; import; value.

• A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

• An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

Meaning

• To assign a duty or responsibility to

• To assign (a debit) to an account

  "Let's charge this to marketing."

• To pay on account, as by using a credit card

  "Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?"

• To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)

  "I won't charge you for the wheat"

• (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.

  "to charge coal at $5 per unit"

• To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

  "I'm charging you with assault and battery."

• To impute or ascribe

• To call to account; to challenge

• To place a burden or load on or in

• To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials

  "Charge your weapons; we're moving up."

• To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback

• (of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)