charge

Definitions

• The amount of money levied for a service.
• (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• A forceful forward movement.
• An accusation.
• (physics) An electric charge.
• The scope of someone's responsibility.
• Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• A load or burden; cargo.
• An instruction.
• (basketball) 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.
• (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• (historical) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre (charre).
• (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.