charge

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Indiegogo would charge ~7% for the same thing.

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Quick take

an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of charge gathered in one view.

noun

an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"

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(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"

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the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for charge.

noun

an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"

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(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"

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the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"

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the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons; "the battery needed a fresh charge"

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attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"

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a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"

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a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street"

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financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate"

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(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"

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the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"

See also: bang, boot, rush, flush, thrill, kick

noun

request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"

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a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury"

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an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"

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heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

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a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"

verb

to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"

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blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged the director with indifference"

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demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"

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move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"

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assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"

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file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"

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make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"

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fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay"

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enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15"

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cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

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give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"

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pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt; "Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?"

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lie down on command, of hunting dogs

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cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

See also: agitate, rouse, commove, excite

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place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"

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provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"

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direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"

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impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"

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instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence

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instruct or command with authority; "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"

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attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"

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set or ask for a certain price; "How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"

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cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; "charge a conductor"

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energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery"

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saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"

Example sentences

Indiegogo would charge ~7% for the same thing.

In the end, I moved my personal mail account to Google Apps, free of charge.

Yesterday, it was whether it's right for Github to charge per repo.

"He was very wary of the government, taxes and people in charge.

What percentage of sales are at risk of chargeback in a pre-sales business?

We don't pay for what we use, but rather some awkward approximation based on what they think consumers will accept charges for.

Verizon charges us for delivering the content we request.

How does that service get provided to us _free of charge_ without advertisements or some sort of monetisation?

Like texting, the carrier of the receiving party charges a termination fee to the carrier of the calling party.

Maybe Verizon should pay Netflix for making their service more valuable?Or we can use the simpler model, in which you get to charge your customers.

He calls them up complaining that the Tesla lost half of its charge overnight and some sympathetic tech support describes it as a "software glitch.

The site charged for access to, and provided advertising around, pirated content.

One way this was stopped was to argue that it was not legal for the ISP to charge you for data, then artificially inflate the size of that data by injecting ads.

Their banks will hear "Internet merchant did not deliver as promised" and sustain the chargeback automatically.

Make it a 900 number if they need to and charge $20 per call, but for the love of cheese the number of times something goes horribly wrong and there is little to no recourse is silly.

Think of it this way: what if your target market was dominated by companies that charge way too much, are extremely inefficient, and are carrying a huge, ever-growing cost basis?

Learn that lesson fast, or you'll be sorely disappointed in all your future projects, especially when you're just the guy-in-charge-of-negotiating-rates-for-business-cards...uh, I mean CEO.

" The idea that Verizon is up against some sort of profitability wall because of how popular its product is becoming and thus needs to charge the companies responsible for that increased popularity...it's simply not credible.