(~s)
1.
If you make an ~ against someone, you criticize them or express the belief that they have done something wrong.
Kim rejects ~s that Country music is over-sentimental...
= charge
N-VAR: oft N that, N of n/-ing
2.
An ~ is a statement or claim by a witness or someone in authority that a particular person has committed a crime, although this has not yet been proved.
...people who have made public ~s of rape...
N-COUNT: oft N of n, N that