charge : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the fee charged for admission
  entrance money; price of admission; admission; admission price; admission fee; entrance fee.
  

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• . See under Back, a.

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• charges brought forward after an account has been made up.

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• noun a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties; originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai'
  banzai attack.
  

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• noun a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
  charge; burster; bursting charge.
  
  • this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains

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• . (a (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting.

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• noun charge made for carrying an account or for merchandise sold on an installment plan
  
• noun the opportunity cost of unproductive assets; the expense incurred by ownership
  carrying cost.
  

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• noun credit extended by a business to a customer
  open account; credit account.
  

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• noun a consumer credit line that can be used up to a certain limit or paid down at any time
  revolving credit; open-end credit.
  

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• (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery.

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• noun a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered
  charge card; plastic; credit card.
  
  • do you take plastic?

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• noun the official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador
  

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Char`gé" d'af`faires" noun (Also<

• Charge d'affaires
• Chargé d'affaires

)

Etymology

F., "charged with affairs."

Wordforms

plural Chargés d'affaires

Definitions

1. A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.

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• noun an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours
  

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• noun amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
  rate.
  
  • a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5

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• noun a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered
  charge card; plastic; credit card.
  
  • do you take plastic?

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• noun the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station
  rap sheet; police blotter; day book; blotter.
  

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• the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations.

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• noun a measure of the quantity of electricity (determined by the amount of an electric current and the time for which it flows)
  quantity unit.
  

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• verb cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
  commove; turn on; excite; agitate; charge; rouse.
  
  • The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks

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• noun an accelerator in which high-energy ions escape from plasma following charge exchange
  

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• noun the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system
  conservation of electricity.
  

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• noun a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink
  cover.
  

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• noun an amount periodically charged to expense or against revenue in compensation for depreciation of property
  

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• noun a bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water; antisubmarine device
  depth bomb.
  

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Dou"ble-charge` transitive verb

Definitions

1. To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
2. To overcharge. Shak.

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• noun a fee added for returning a rented car to a location different from the one where it was rented
  

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• noun the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
  charge.
  
  • the battery needed a fresh charge

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• noun the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)
  

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• noun a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
  charge; burster; bursting charge.
  
  • this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains

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• noun a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)
  fixed cost; fixed costs.
  

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• (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity.

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• adverb without payment
  for free; gratis.
  
  • I'll give you this gratis

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• noun the cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order)
  handling cost.
  

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• noun the charge for installing something
  

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• noun the charge on an ion is equal to a constant charge e multiplied by an integer from 1 to 15
  

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• charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.

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• noun an indictment charging someone with murder
  murder indictment.
  

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• noun having a surplus of electrons; having a lower electric potential
  

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• (Elec.), having a charge of the kind of electricity called negative.

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• adjective satellite having a negative charge
  negative; electronegative.
  
  • electrons are negative

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• (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor.

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• noun having a deficiency of electrons; having a higher electric potential
  

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• adjective satellite having a positive charge
  positive; electropositive.
  
  • protons are positive

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• (Elec.), having a charge of positive electricity; opposed to negatively electrified.

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• (Firearms), a charge of powder and ball, greater than the service charge, fired in an arm, as a gun or cannon, to test its strength.

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• (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it, Bouvier.

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• noun a charge account that does not have to be paid to zero balance
  

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• noun a percentage of a bill (as at a hotel or restaurant) added in payment for service
  service fee.
  

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Sleep"-charged` adjective

Definitions

1. Heavy with sleep.

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• verb assume control
  take hold; take control.
  

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• verb accept as a charge
  undertake.
  

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• to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed.

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• to give the signal for an attack.

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