charge something to someone's account to record an amount that a customer has spent for them to pay at a later time, according to an agreement between a business and the customer:
A fundamental property of the elementary particles of which matter is made that gives rise to attractive and repulsive forces. There are two kinds of charge: color charge and electric charge. The amount of electric charge contained in an object, particle, or region of space.
Definition of charge noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Charge can mean electricity received, as in the shock you’d feel if you put your finger in a wall socket. Charge is also what you do when you use your credit card instead of cash.
There are 50 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb charge, 13 of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
