charge

noun

1. The amount of money levied for a service.
2. An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
3. A forceful forward movement.
4. An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
5. An accusation by a person or organization.
6. An electric charge.
7. The scope of someone's responsibility.
8. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
9. A load or burden; cargo.
10. An instruction.
11. A mortgage.
12. An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
13. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
14. A measured amount of explosive.
15. An image displayed on an escutcheon.
16. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
17. A sort of plaster or ointment.
18. Weight; import; value.
19. A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
20. An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.