to set or ask (a price or fee)

to ask payment of (a person)

(often + to) to record (an item) as an expense, debt, obligation, or liability

to impose a financial obligation on (something)

(often + with) to entrust (somebody) with a task or responsibility

to command or exhort (somebody) with right or authority

I charge you not to leave

(often + with) to accuse (somebody) formally of having committed an offence

to assert (something) as an accusation

The report charges that they altered the data

to load or fill (something) to capacity or so that it is ready for use

charge the blast furnace with ore

(often + up) to restore the active materials in (a battery) by the application of a current

to give an electric charge to (a battery or similar device)

to place a usu powder charge in (a firearm)

to fill (somebody or something) with passionate emotion, feeling, etc

a highly charged issue

an instruction or command

instructions given by a judge to a jury

an obligation or requirement

To maintain this readiness … is … a first charge upon our military effort — Sir Winston Churchill

supervision or custody

Ieft them in her charge

somebody or something committed to the care of another

the quantity that something is intended or fitted to receive and hold, esp the quantity of explosive for a gun or cannon

power or force

the emotional charge of the drama

a basic property of matter responsible for electrical activity and characterized that occurs in discrete natural units and is considered as negative or positive

a definite quantity of electricity, esp the quantity held by a battery