ALL meanings of charging
charge
C c - verb with object charging to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves. 1
- verb with object charging to impose on or ask of (someone) a price or fee: He didn't charge me for it. 1
- verb with object charging to defer payment for (a purchase) until a bill is rendered by the creditor: The store let me charge the coat. 1
- verb with object charging to hold liable for payment; enter a debit against. 1
- verb with object charging to attack by rushing violently against: The cavalry charged the enemy. 1
- verb with object charging to accuse formally or explicitly (usually followed by with): They charged him with theft. 1
- verb with object charging to impute; ascribe the responsibility for: He charged the accident to his own carelessness. 1
- verb with object charging to instruct authoritatively, as a judge does a jury. 1
- verb with object charging to lay a command or injunction upon: He charged his secretary with the management of his correspondence. 1
- verb with object charging to fill or furnish (a thing) with the quantity, as of powder or fuel, that it is fitted to receive: to charge a musket. 1
- verb with object charging to supply with a quantity of electric charge or electrical energy: to charge a storage battery. 1
- verb with object charging to change the net amount of positive or negative electric charge of (a particle, body, or system). 1
- verb with object charging to suffuse, as with emotion: The air was charged with excitement. 1
- verb with object charging to fill (air, water, etc.) with other matter in a state of diffusion or solution: The air was charged with pollen. 1
- verb with object charging Metallurgy. to load (materials) into a furnace, converter, etc. 1
- verb with object charging to load or burden (the mind, heart, etc.): His mind was charged with weighty matters. 1
- verb with object charging to put a load or burden on or in. 1
- verb with object charging 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. 1
- verb with object charging to borrow, as books or other materials from a library (often followed by out): How many magazines may I charge at one time? 1
- verb with object charging Heraldry. to place charges on (an escutcheon). 1
- verb without object charging to make an onset; rush, as to an attack. 1
- verb without object charging to place the price of a thing to one's debit. 1
- verb without object charging to require payment: to charge for a service. 1
- verb without object charging to make a debit, as in an account. 1
- verb without object charging (of dogs) to lie down at command. 1
- noun charging expense or cost: improvements made at a tenant's own charge. 1
- noun charging a fee or price charged: a charge of three dollars for admission. 1
- noun charging a pecuniary burden, encumbrance, tax, or lien; cost; expense; liability to pay: After his death there were many charges on his estate. 1
- noun charging an entry in an account of something due. 1
- noun charging an impetuous onset or attack, as of soldiers. 1
- noun charging a signal by bugle, drum, etc., for a military charge. 1
- noun charging a duty or responsibility laid upon or entrusted to one. 1
- noun charging care, custody, or superintendence: The child was placed in her nurse's charge. 1
- noun charging anything or anybody committed to one's care or management: The nurse was careful to let no harm come to her charge. 1
- noun charging Ecclesiastical. a parish or congregation committed to the spiritual care of a pastor. 1
- noun charging a command or injunction; exhortation. 1
- noun charging an accusation: He was arrested on a charge of theft. 1
- noun charging Law. 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. 1
- noun charging the quantity of anything that an apparatus is fitted to hold, or holds, at one time: a charge of coal for a furnace. 1
- noun charging a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time. 1
- noun charging Electricity. electric charge. the process of charging a storage battery. 1
- noun charging Slang. a thrill; kick. 1
- noun charging Rocketry. grains of a solid propellant, usually including an inhibitor. 1
- noun charging a load or burden. 1
- noun charging Heraldry. any distinctive mark upon an escutcheon, as an ordinary or device, not considered as belonging to the field; bearing. 1
- idioms charging in charge, in command; having supervisory power. British. under arrest; in or into the custody of the police. 1
- idioms charging in charge of, having the care or supervision of: She is in charge of two libraries. Also, in the charge of. under the care or supervision of: The books are in the charge of the accounting office. 1
- noun charging Present participle of charge. 1
- noun charging (Countable Noun) An act or process of charging (as of a battery). 0
- noun charging (Uncountable Noun) (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender. 0