charges

We have found lemma(root) word of charges : charge.

Definitions


[tʃɑːdʒ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied
(e.g: wedding planners may charge an hourly fee of up to £150)

- formally accuse (someone) of something, especially an offence under law
(e.g: they were charged with assault)

- entrust (someone) with a task as a duty or responsibility
(e.g: the committee was charged with reshaping the educational system)

- store electrical energy in (a battery or battery-operated device)
(e.g: the shaver can be charged up and used while travelling)

- rush forward in attack
(e.g: the plan is to charge headlong at the enemy)

- place a heraldic bearing on
(e.g: a pennant argent, charged with a cross gules)


Phrases:
- free of charge
- in charge
- press charges
- put someone on a charge of something
- take charge

Origin:
Middle English (in the general senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’), from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load’, from Latin carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’


[tʃɑːdʒ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a price asked for goods or services
(e.g: our standard charge for a letter is £25)

- an accusation, typically one formally made against a prisoner brought to trial
(e.g: he appeared in court on a charge of attempted murder)

- responsibility for the care or control of someone or something
(e.g: the people in her charge are pupils and not experimental subjects)

- the property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form

- a quantity of explosive to be detonated in order to fire a gun or similar weapon
(e.g: smaller charges, fired on three minute fuses lit by hand)

- a headlong rush forward, typically in attack
(e.g: a cavalry charge)

- a device or bearing placed on a shield or crest


Phrases:
- free of charge
- in charge
- press charges
- put someone on a charge of something
- take charge

Origin:
Middle English (in the general senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’), from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load’, from Latin carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’




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