charging
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Definitions ofcharging
- To assign a duty or responsibility to
- To assign (a debit) to an account
Example: "Let's charge this to marketing."
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card
Example: "Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?"
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)
Example: "I won't charge you for the wheat"
- (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.
Example: "to charge coal at $5 per unit"
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
Example: "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
Example: "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)
- An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
Example: "Smith is called for charging, and the Nimrods will get the ball."
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