If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.

To charge something to a person or organization means to tell the people providing it to send the bill to that person or organization. To charge something to someone's account means to add it to their account so they can pay for it later.

A charge is an amount of money that you have to pay for a service.

A charge is a formal accusation that someone has committed a crime.

When the police charge someone, they formally accuse them of having done something illegal.

If you charge someone with doing something wrong or unpleasant, you publicly say that they have done it.

If you take charge of someone or something, you make yourself responsible for them and take control over them. If someone or something is in your charge, you are responsible for them.

If you are in charge in a particular situation, you are the most senior person and have control over something or someone.

If you describe someone as your charge, they have been given to you to be looked after and you are responsible for them.

If you charge towards someone or something, you move quickly and aggressively towards them.

To charge a battery means to pass an electrical current through it in order to make it more powerful or to make it last longer.

An electrical charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.

The charge in a cartridge or shell is the explosive inside it. You can also refer to the cartridge or shell itself as a charge .

If something is free of charge, it does not cost anything.