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单词 charge
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chargeverb

uk/tʃɑːdʒ/us/tʃɑːrdʒ/

charge verb (MONEY)

B1 [ T or I ] to ask an amount of money for something, especially a service or activity:

How much/What do you charge for a haircut and blow-dry?
The bank charged commission to change my traveller's cheques.
[ + two objects ] They charge you $20 just to get in the nightclub.
The local museum doesn't charge for admission.
charge sth to sb's account

to record an amount that a customer has spent for them to pay at a later time, according to an agreement between a business and the customer:

Charge the bill to my account, please.
Shall we charge the flowers to your account?

More examples

  • How much do you charge for hiring out a bicycle for a week?
  • He charges anywhere from $20 to $50 for a haircut and blow-dry.
  • The restaurant charges shockingly high prices for its food.
  • My plumber charges £20 an hour.
  • The policy of charging air travellers for vegetarian meals proved unpopular.

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Bills & invoices

  • bill
  • billing
  • chit
  • claim form
  • counterfoil
  • credit note
  • order
  • passbook
  • payslip
  • pro forma
  • sales slip
  • stamp
  • tab
  • tariff
  • ticket
  • ticketless
  • toll
  • tolled
  • Treasury bond
  • voucher

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Paying money

charge verb (ACCUSE FORMALLY)

B2 [ T ] (of the police) to make a formal statement saying that someone is accused of a crime:

She's been charged with murder.
She is charged with murdering her husband.

formal to publicly accuse someone of doing something bad:

The paper charged her with using the company's money for her own purposes.

More examples

  • Two sisters have been charged with murder.
  • He tried to run away from the police and was charged with resisting arrest.
  • He was charged with driving 75 mph in a 55 mph zone.
  • Several England supporters were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace after the match.
  • Six rugby internationals were charged with taking drugs to improve their performance.

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Blaming & accusing

  • a bad workman blames his tools idiom
  • accusatory
  • accusing
  • allegation
  • attribute
  • attribution
  • carry
  • chalk sth up
  • condemnation
  • contributory negligence
  • face the music idiom
  • finger
  • finger-pointing
  • frame
  • hang
  • indictment
  • opprobrium
  • recrimination
  • stitch sb up
  • thank sb for sth idiom

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Arresting & charging

charge verb (MOVE FORWARD)

B2 [ I or T ] to move forward quickly and violently, especially towards something that has caused difficulty or anger:

The bull lowered its horns and charged.
The violence began when the police charged (at) a crowd of demonstrators.

[ I + adv/prep ] informal to hurry from one place to another:

I've been charging about/around all day and I'm exhausted.
He came charging up the stairs to tell me the good news.

More examples

  • The children charged in, demanding ice cream.
  • As the protesters drew nearer, the soldiers charged.
  • Stop charging around - you'll wear yourself out!
  • The herd of rhinos charged towards us.
  • Crowds of demonstrators charged police lines.

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Moving quickly

  • beetle
  • belt
  • bob
  • bowl
  • bowl down/along sth
  • careen
  • career
  • gallop
  • leg
  • make off
  • outran
  • pelt
  • rush
  • scamper
  • scoot
  • scrabble
  • scramble
  • shoot
  • stampede
  • trot

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Attacking & invading

charge verb (EXPLOSIVE)

[ T ] to put enough explosive into a gun to fire it once

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Guns

  • cannon
  • cannonade
  • cannonball
  • cock
  • crossfire
  • go off
  • gunsmith
  • kick
  • machine gun
  • ordnance
  • plug
  • point-blank
  • potshot
  • shoot
  • shooter
  • shooting gallery
  • shot
  • sniper
  • snub-nosed
  • Taser

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charge verb (ORDER)

[ T often passive ] formal to order someone to do something:

He was charged with taking care of the premises.

[ T ] US specialized law When a judge charges a jury, he or she explains the details of the law to them.

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Giving orders & commands

  • all-points bulletin
  • bade
  • boss
  • bossyboots
  • chain of command
  • crack the whip idiom
  • defy
  • demand
  • enjoin
  • expect
  • forget
  • harry
  • lay down the law idiom
  • mandate
  • ordain
  • order sb around
  • overbearing
  • prescribed
  • steamroller
  • stick

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Judges & juries

charge verb (SUPPLY ENERGY)

B2 [ I or T ] to put electricity into an electrical device such as a battery:

She drove the car round the block to charge (up) its batteries.
It's not working - I don't think the battery is charging.

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Electricity & electronics

  • anodize
  • anti-static
  • chargeable
  • charger
  • conduction
  • destructive interference
  • electric
  • electric field
  • electrical
  • electromagnetic
  • electrostatic
  • flow
  • generation
  • homing
  • input
  • linesman
  • rechargeable
  • resistor
  • solid-state
  • transistorized

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chargenoun

uk/tʃɑːdʒ/us/tʃɑːrdʒ/

charge noun (MONEY)

B1 [ C or U ] the amount of money that you have to pay for something, especially for an activity or service:

Is there a charge for children or do they go free?
There's an admission charge of £5.
They fixed my watch free of charge.

More examples

  • Adults pay an admission charge but children get in free.
  • Although long-distance phone calls are going up, the charge for local calls will not alter.
  • Interest charges on an overdraft are usually quite high.
  • Prescription charges are rising in June.
  • I just want a basic bank account with low charges.

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Costs & expenses

  • aliment
  • alimony
  • asking price
  • carrying charge
  • compensation
  • corkage
  • cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
  • cost-of-living index
  • damage
  • dent
  • expense
  • flat rate
  • indirect cost
  • maintenance
  • price war
  • running costs
  • settlement
  • sticker price
  • stoppage
  • worth

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charge noun (FORMAL ACCUSATION)

C1 [ C ] specialized law a formal police statement saying that someone is accused of a crime:

The 19-year-old will be appearing in court on Thursday where she will face criminal charges.
He has been arrested on a charge of murder.
The police brought a charge of theft against him.
The police have had to drop (= stop) charges against her because they couldn't find any evidence.
He claimed he had been arrested on a trumped-up (= false) charge.

[ C ] formal the act of accusing someone of something bad:

[ + that ] The president responded angrily to the charge that she had lost touch with her country's people.
Her refusal to condemn the violence laid/left her open to the charge of positive support for the campaign (= allowed people to say that she supported it).

More examples

  • The company pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter.
  • The charge of murder was altered to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
  • Both men vehemently denied the charges against them.
  • Criminal charges will be brought against the driver of the lorry.
  • Simson, aged 19, was convicted on two charges of burglary.

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Blaming & accusing

  • a bad workman blames his tools idiom
  • accusatory
  • accusing
  • allegation
  • attribute
  • attribution
  • carry
  • chalk sth up
  • condemnation
  • contributory negligence
  • face the music idiom
  • finger
  • finger-pointing
  • frame
  • hang
  • indictment
  • opprobrium
  • recrimination
  • stitch sb up
  • thank sb for sth idiom

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Arresting & charging

charge noun (CONTROL)

in charge

B1 being the person who has control of or is responsible for someone or something:

Who will be in charge of the department when Sophie leaves?
I left Jack in charge of the suitcases while I went to get the tickets.

B2 [ U ] responsibility for controlling or caring for something:

Her ex-husband has charge of the children during the week and she has them at the weekend.
His boss asked him to take charge of the office for a few days while she was away.

[ C ] old-fashioned a person, especially a child, who is in your care and who you are responsible for

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Duty, obligation and responsibility

  • accountable
  • answer for sb/sth
  • answer for sth
  • answer to sb
  • answerable
  • commitment
  • fail
  • have sth on your hands idiom
  • I am not my brother's keeper idiom
  • in the hot seat idiom
  • incharge
  • it's your own lookout idiom
  • portfolio
  • responsibility
  • responsible
  • risk
  • saddle sb with sth
  • shoulder
  • social contract
  • stick

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charge noun (EXPLOSIVE)

[ C ] the amount of explosive to be fired at one time, or the bullet or other explosive object shot from a gun

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Bombs & missiles

  • atom bomb
  • ballistic
  • ballistic missile
  • ballistics
  • bomblet
  • firebomb
  • frag bomb
  • fragmentation bomb
  • grenade
  • guided missile
  • minefield
  • missile
  • Molotov cocktail
  • mushroom cloud
  • napalm
  • silo
  • smart bomb
  • smoke bomb
  • surface-to-air missile
  • time bomb

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charge noun (MOVE FORWARD)

[ C ] an attack in which people or animals suddenly run forward:

a charge of buffalo/elephants
a police charge

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Moving quickly

  • beetle
  • belt
  • bob
  • bowl
  • bowl down/along sth
  • careen
  • career
  • gallop
  • leg
  • make off
  • outran
  • pelt
  • rush
  • scamper
  • scoot
  • scrabble
  • scramble
  • shoot
  • stampede
  • trot

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charge noun (ORDER)

[ C ] formal an order to do something

charge noun (SUPPLY ENERGY)

[ C usually singular ] the amount of electricity that an electrical device stores or that a substance carries

on charge UK

If something is on charge, you are putting an amount of electricity into it:

Is it all right to leave/put the battery on charge overnight?

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Electricity & electronics

  • anodize
  • anti-static
  • chargeable
  • charger
  • conduction
  • destructive interference
  • electric
  • electric field
  • electrical
  • electromagnetic
  • electrostatic
  • flow
  • generation
  • homing
  • input
  • linesman
  • rechargeable
  • resistor
  • solid-state
  • transistorized

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chargeverb

uk/tʃɑːdʒ/us

[ I or T ] COMMERCE, FINANCE to ask for a particular amount of money for something, especially a service or activity:

charge (sb) sth for sth How much will you charge us for shipping and handling?
They charged $200 for insurance.
charge (sb) for sth We do not charge you for this service.
charge a price/fee, etc. He considered that the price they were charging was fair.
The bank charges a commission to withdraw money from a foreign ATM.

[ T ] to pay for something by credit card:

I don't have any cash - I'll charge it.
charge sth to sb's account

if you charge something to someone's account , the amount they have spent is recorded and they pay for it at a later time:

Charge the bill to my account, please.

[ T ] ACCOUNTING to record something as a cost in a financial account:

charge sth to sth The depreciation is charged to the profit and loss account.

[ T ] LAW to make a formal statement saying that someone is accused of a crime:

charge sb with sth The property developer was charged with fraud.

[ T ] to publicly accuse someone of having done something bad:

charge sb with sth The newspaper charged him with misleading the public about the seriousness of the situation.

[ T, often passive ] to ask someone to do a particular job:

be charged with sth The committee has been charged with developing a new funding formula.

Phrasal verb(s)

charge off

chargenoun

uk/tʃɑːdʒ/us

[ C or U ] COMMERCE, FINANCE the amount of money that you have to pay for something, especially for a service:

make/impose/incur a charge If you fail to cancel the booking within the specified period, you will incur a charge.
charge for sb/sth Is there a charge for children or do they go free?
small/nominal charge We make a nominal charge for this service.
high charges Small investors are put off by the high charges for this sort of account
There will be a one-off charge of £30.
Interest charges on an overdraft are usually quite high.
We will deliver to your home free of charge.

[ C ] ACCOUNTING a cost that is recorded in a company's financial accounts:

take a charge for sth The company expects to take a charge for various expenses relating to the acquisition.
Depreciation is treated as a charge in the profit and loss account.

[ C ] LAW, PROPERTY →  charge on assets :

a mortgage, or other charge against the property

[ C ] LAW a formal statement accusing someone of committing a crime:

bring a charge against sb Charges were brought against the UK company under the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act.
on a charge of sth She was arrested on a charge of fraud.
criminal charges
He was taken into custody but released without charge.

[ C ] a statement that someone has done something bad:

He responded angrily to the charge that he had not acted in the best interests of the company.
in charge

in control of or responsible for someone or something:

Who will be in charge of the department when Sophie leaves?
From now on, Steve is in charge.
leave sb in charge (of sth) He was on vacation and had left his deputy in charge.
put sb in charge (of sth) I put Jack in charge of making the travel arrangements.
take charge (of sth)

to take control of something or of a group of people:

His boss asked him to take charge of the office for a few days while she was away.

See also

accrued charge
bank charge
capital charge
carrying charge
certificate of charge
cover charge
exit charge
finance charge
fixed charge
floating charge
handling charge
landing charge
management charge
restructuring charge
reverse-charge
sales charge
service charge
social charges
termination charge
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