A charge is a quick and aggressive move towards someone.

A charge is an amount of money that you have to pay for a service.

A charge is a formal accusation that someone has committed a crime.

If you describe someone as your charge, they have been given to you to be taken care of and you are responsible for them.

An electrical charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.

If you take charge of someone or something, you make yourself responsible for them and take control over them. If someone or something is in your charge, you are responsible for them.

Charge up means the same as charge.

If you are in charge in a particular situation, you are the most senior person and have control over something or someone.

If something is free of charge, it does not cost anything.

If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.

To charge something to a person or organization means to tell the people providing it to send the bill to that person or organization. To charge something to someone's account means to add it to their account so they can pay for it later.

When the police charge someone, they formally accuse them of having done something illegal.

If you charge towards someone or something, you move quickly and aggressively towards them.

To charge a battery means to pass an electrical current through it in order to make it more powerful or to make it last longer.