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# charge

«charge» in Mova's school dictionary: **to ask money for something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (charge, charges, charged, charging); noun (a charge, charges)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To charge is to ask money for something. A charge is the price or fee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#m1)

2) To charge a phone or battery is to fill it with electric power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#m2)

3) To charge is to run hard straight at something, like a bull charging. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#m3)

4) To be in charge is to be the one who leads and decides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#m4)

5) To charge someone with a crime is to say officially that they did it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a price or a fee, often per hour or per item (cost = rate × units, plus a fixed charge); science: electric charge, a battery charging up, positive and negative charges; everyday life: phones and tablets need charging, a delivery charge, «free of charge» means it costs nothing; school: the teacher is in charge of the class; stories: knights charge into battle, an angry bull charges

### examples

- The shop charges 5 dollars an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x1)
- They charge 2 dollars per bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x2)
- There is a 3 dollar delivery charge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x3)
- Her phone charges 10 percent every 15 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x4)
- Entry to the museum is free of charge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x5)
- Ms Lee is in charge of the school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x6)
- Plug in the tablet so it can charge overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x7)
- The bull charged at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x8)
- Rubbing a balloon gives it an electric charge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x9)
- A snap too much and the bulls will charge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/#x10)

### note

A price per unit: cost = rate × units, plus a fixed charge. Trap: a one-time charge is added once, not per item. «Free of charge» = 0 dollars. «In charge of» means leading, not paying. Safety: do not leave a phone charging on your bed.

### In the corpora

- [Banks pay interest on savings, and they charge interest when you borrow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/4/)
- [An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/12/)
- [Some cash machines charge a fee for taking out money, while most bank ones are free.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/18/)
- [Buy now pay later splits a purchase into instalments; it is still borrowing, with charges if a payment is late.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/17/)
- ["Charged" with a crime is not the same as "guilty"; the court decides, so wait for it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «charge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.