Lastschrift

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The amount of money levied for a service.

Example: There will be a charge of five dollars.

Definition: A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

Example: Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.

Definition: A forceful forward movement.

Definition: An accusation.

Example: That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.

Definition: An electric charge.

Definition: The scope of someone's responsibility.

Example: The child was in the nanny's charge.

Definition: Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

Example: The child was a charge of the nanny.

Definition: A load or burden; cargo.

Example: The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.

Definition: An instruction.

Example: I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.

Definition: An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

Definition: A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.

Definition: An image displayed on an escutcheon.

Definition: A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

Example: to bring a weapon to the charge

Definition: A sort of plaster or ointment.

Definition: Weight; import; value.

Definition: A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

Definition: An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To assign a duty or responsibility to

Definition: To assign (a debit) to an account

Example: Let's charge this to marketing.

Definition: To pay on account, as by using a credit card

Example: Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?

Definition: To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)

Example: I won't charge you for the wheat

Definition: (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.

Example: to charge coal at $5 per unit

Definition: To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

Example: I'm charging you with assault and battery.

Definition: To impute or ascribe

Definition: To call to account; to challenge

Definition: To place a burden or load on or in

Definition: To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials

Example: Charge your weapons; we're moving up.

Definition: To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback

Definition: (of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)