charge – English noun declension

English noun forms of charge

Noun: charge
Singularcharge
Pluralcharges

Sample Sentences

  • There will be a charge of five dollars.
  • There is a cancellation charge if you withdraw your order.
  • Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal [2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC:]
  • two charges of manslaughter
  • "Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time." [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:]
  • That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
  • we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge; [2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 261a:]
  • A charge often leveled against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. [2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:]
  • The child was in the nanny's charge.
  • He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person. [1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 http://books.google.com/books?id=Pz-TAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=key]
  • The child was a charge of the nanny.
  • The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
  • I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
  • Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that. [1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:]
  • Near-synonym: emblem
  • to bring a weapon to the charge
  • many suchlike as's of great charge [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:]
  • At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know. [1966, Alan Bestic, Turn Me on Man, page 58:]
  • It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window. [1970, Sean O'Callaghan, Drug Addiction in Britain, page 51:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
4. Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós
5. Proto-Celtic *karros
6. Gaulish *karrosbor.
7. Latin carrus
8. Latin -ic-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
14. Proto-Italic *-ājō
15. Proto-Italic *-āō
16. Latin -ō
17. Latin -ico
18. Latin carricō
19. Late Latin carricāre
20. Old French chargierder.
21. Middle English chargen
22. English charge
23. From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo. See: Latin Nouns 'carrus'.