(~s, charging, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
Even local nurseries ~ ?100 a week...
The hospitals ~ the patients for every aspirin...
Some banks ~ if you access your account to determine your balance.
...the architect who ~d us a fee of seven hundred and fifty pounds.
VERB: V n, V n for n, V, V n n
2.
To ~ something to a person or organization means to tell the people providing it to send the bill to that person or organization. To ~ something to someone’s account means to add it to their account so they can pay for it later.
Go out and buy a pair of glasses, and ~ it to us...
All transactions have been ~d to your account.
= bill
VERB: V n to n, V n to n
3.
A ~ is an amount of money that you have to pay for a service.
We can arrange this for a small ~...
Customers who arrange overdrafts will face a monthly ~ of ?5.
N-COUNT
4.
A ~ is a formal accusation that someone has committed a crime.
He may still face criminal ~s...
They appeared at court yesterday to deny ~s of murder.
N-COUNT
5.
When the police ~ someone, they formally accuse them of having done something illegal.
They have the evidence to ~ him...
Police have ~d Mr Bell with murder.
VERB: V n, V n with n
6.
If you ~ someone with doing something wrong or unpleasant, you publicly say that they have done it. (WRITTEN)
He ~d the minister with lying about the economy.
= accuse
VERB: V n with -ing/n
7.
If you take ~ of someone or something, you make yourself responsible for them and take control over them. If someone or something is in your ~, you are responsible for them.
A few years ago Bacryl took ~ of the company...
I have been given ~ of this class...
They would never forget their time in his ~.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
8.
If you are in ~ in a particular situation, you are the most senior person and have control over something or someone.
Who’s in ~ here?
...the Swiss governess in ~ of the smaller children.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, oft PHR of n
9.
If you describe someone as your ~, they have been given to you to be looked after and you are responsible for them.
The coach tried to get his ~s motivated.
N-COUNT: usu pl, poss N
10.
If you ~ towards someone or something, you move quickly and aggressively towards them.
He ~d through the door to my mother’s office...
He ordered us to ~.
...a charging bull.
VERB: V prep/adv, V, V-ing
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Charge is also a noun.
...a bayonet ~.
N-COUNT
11.
To ~ a battery means to pass an electrical current through it in order to make it more powerful or to make it last longer.
Alex had forgotten to ~ the battery.
VERB: V n
•
Charge up means the same as ~ .
There was nothing in the brochure about having to drive the car every day to ~ up the battery.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
12.
An electrical ~ is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something. (TECHNICAL)
N-COUNT: usu sing
13.
see also ~d , baton ~ , cover ~ , depth ~ , service ~
14.
If something is free of ~, it does not cost anything.
The leaflet is available free of ~ from post offices.
= free
PHRASE