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The amount of money levied for a service.

(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

A forceful forward movement.

(accusation) An accusation. +

An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.

An accusation by a person or organization.

An electric charge.

The scope of someone's responsibility.

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

A load or burden; cargo.

An instruction.

(property law) A mortgage.

(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

(by extension) A measured amount of explosive.

(heraldry) (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.

(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

(farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.

(obsolete) Weight; import; value.

(obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a (charre).

(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

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To assign a duty or responsibility to.

To assign (a debit) to an account.

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

(US) To pay on account, {{non-gloss|as}} by using a credit card.

(dated) To sell (something) at a given price.

(police) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

(property law) To mortgage (a property).

To impute or ascribe.

To call to account; to challenge.

To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

To ornament with or cause to bear.

(heraldry) To assume as a bearing.

(heraldry) To add to or represent on.

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.

To cause to take on an electric charge.

To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.

(of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.

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

To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.

(basketball) To commit a charging foul.

(batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.

(hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. {{q|A command given by a hunter to a dog}}