<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.</li><li>To impose on or ask of (someone) a price or fee: He didn't charge me for it.</li><li>To defer payment for (a purchase) until a bill is rendered by the creditor: The store let me charge the coat.</li><li>To hold liable for payment; enter a debit against.</li><li>To attack by rushing violently against: The cavalry charged the enemy.</li><li>To accuse formally or explicitly (usually followed by with): They charged him with theft.</li><li>To impute; ascribe the responsibility for: He charged the accident to his own carelessness.</li><li>To instruct authoritatively, as a judge does a jury.</li><li>To lay a command or injunction upon: He charged his secretary with the management of his correspondence.</li><li>To fill or furnish (a thing) with the quantity, as of powder or fuel, that it is fitted to receive: to charge a musket.</li><li>To supply with a quantity of electric charge or electrical energy: to charge a storage battery.</li><li>To change the net amount of positive or negative electric charge of (a particle, body, or system).</li><li>To suffuse, as with emotion: The air was charged with excitement.</li><li>To fill (air, water, etc.) with other matter in a state of diffusion or solution: The air was charged with pollen.</li><li>To load (materials) into a furnace, converter, etc.</li><li>To load or burden (the mind, heart, etc.): His mind was charged with weighty matters.</li><li>To put a load or burden on or in.</li><li>To record the loan of, as books or other materials from a library (often followed by out): The librarian will charge those books at the front desk.</li><li>To borrow, as books or other materials from a library (often followed by out): How many magazines may I charge at one time?</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Expense or cost: improvements made at a tenant's own charge.</li><li>A fee or price charged: a charge of three dollars for admission.</li><li>A pecuniary burden, encumbrance, tax, or lien; cost; expense; liability to pay: After his death there were many charges on his estate.</li><li>An entry in an account of something due.</li><li>An impetuous onset or attack, as of soldiers.</li><li>A signal by bugle, drum, etc., for a military charge.</li><li>A duty or responsibility laid upon or entrusted to one.</li><li>Anything or anybody committed to one's care or management: The nurse was careful to let no harm come to her charge.</li><li>A parish or congregation committed to the spiritual care of a pastor.</li><li>A command or injunction; exhortation.</li><li>An accusation: He was arrested on a charge of theft.</li><li>An address by a judge to a jury at the close of a trial, instructing it as to the legal points, the weight of evidence, etc., affecting the verdict in the case.</li><li>The quantity of anything that an apparatus is fitted to hold, or holds, at one time: a charge of coal for a furnace.</li><li>A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.</li><li>Electric charge.</li><li>The process of charging a storage battery.</li><li>Slang: a thrill; kick.</li><li>A load or burden.</li><li>Heraldry: any distinctive mark upon an escutcheon, as an ordinary or device, not considered as belonging to the field; bearing.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>To write off as an expense or loss.</li><li>To attribute to: I charged off the blunder to inexperience.</li><li>To agitate, stimulate, or excite: a fiery speaker who can charge up an audience.</li><li>To put or be under the influence of narcotic drugs.</li></ul>