v.
       - demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied.
 - formally accuse (someone) of something, especially an offence under law.
 - entrust with a task or responsibility.
 - store electrical energy in (a battery or battery-operated device).
 - technical or formal load or fill (a container, gun, etc.) to the full or proper extent. 
▸fill with a quality or emotion:
 the air was charged with menace.
 - rush forward in attack. 
▸move quickly and forcefully.
 - Heraldry  place a charge on.
 
n.
        - a price asked. 
▸a financial liability or commitment.
 - a formal accusation made against a prisoner brought to trial.
 - responsibility for care or control. 
▸a person or thing entrusted to someone's care.
 - the property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form. 
▸the quantity of this carried by a body.
 ▸energy stored chemically in a battery for conversion into electricity.
 - a quantity of explosive to be detonated in order to fire a gun or similar weapon.
 - a headlong rush forward, typically in attack.
 - an official instruction given by a judge to a jury regarding points of law.
 - Heraldry  a device or bearing placed on a shield or crest.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    - press 
(or prefer)
 charges
 accuse someone formally of a crime so that they can be brought to trial.  - put someone on a charge
 Brit. charge someone with a specified offence. 
   
  Derivative
  
    - chargeable adj.
  - charged adj.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME, from OFr. charger (v.), charge (n.), from late L. carricare, carcare ‘to load’, from L. carrus ‘wheeled vehicle’.