Phrase Hound found 50 phrases and 17 compound words that contain charges. The most common are listed below. Open charges in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 50
- reverse the chargesTo make a telephone call for which the party who is called agrees to pay.
- Criminal charges
- handling chargesplural of handling charge: A fee charged for performing certain services, such as collecting customs duty or dealing with returned goods.
- service chargesplural of service charge: An amount added to a bill in a restaurant, or other similar establishment, which is normally paid to the waiter or waitress.
- reversing the chargespresent participle and gerund of reverse the charges
- press chargesTo formally accuse a person of a crime, especially by an ordinary person.
- finance chargesplural of finance charge: Any fee representing the cost of credit, or the cost of borrowing, expressed as interest accrued on, and fees charged for, on some forms of credit.
- chips and chargesthird-person singular simple present indicative of chip and charge: A weak groundstroke followed immediately by an advance towards the net.
- cover chargesplural of cover charge: An amount of money to be paid for entering a bar or restaurant where entertainment is provided.
- electric chargesplural of electric charge: Any of several quantities related to electricity.
- fixed chargesplural of fixed charge: An unvarying charge such as rent or property tax.
- space chargesplural of space charge: The localized excess electric charge in a specific volume; especially such a negative charge
- depth chargesplural of depth charge: A form of bomb, launched from a ship or dropped from an aircraft, that is designed to detonate at a certain depth underwater for the purposes of attacking a submerged enemy, especially a submarine.
- formal chargesplural of formal charge: The charge assigned to an atom in a molecule, assuming that electrons in all chemical bonds are shared equally between atoms, regardless of relative electronegativity.
- partial chargesplural of partial charge: an electric charge that is less than the charge on an electron; for example, that of a quark
- reversed the chargessimple past and past participle of reverse the charges
- charges the moundthird-person singular simple present indicative of charge the mound: To run towards the pitcher's mound with the intent of physically assaulting the pitcher for a perceived grievance.
- charges downthird-person singular simple present indicative of charge down: To lose electrical power
- charges offthird-person singular simple present indicative of charge off: A write-off.
- charges upthird-person singular simple present indicative of charge up: To recharge, to give electrical power to something.
- color chargesplural of color charge: In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red …
- green chargesplural of green charge: A fee levied for ecological reasons.
- point chargesplural of point charge: A point particle with a nonzero electric charge
- pre-chargesplural of pre-charge: before a charge
- public chargesplural of public charge: A person who gets more from welfare programs than they contribute.
Compound words 17
- dischargesplural of discharge: To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- surchargesthird-person singular simple present indicative of surcharge: An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
- overchargesthird-person singular simple present indicative of overcharge: To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
- superchargesthird-person singular simple present indicative of supercharge: To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
- isochargesplural of isocharge: A sequence of ions that have the same charge
- chargeshipsplural of chargeship: The position or office of a chargé d'affaires.
- counterchargesplural of countercharge: An accusation against an opponent in an argument in response to the opponent's accusations.
- forechargesplural of forecharge: To charge in advance.
- hyperchargesplural of hypercharge: Clipped compound of hyperonic charge: a quantum characteristic of a group of subatomic particles governed by the strong force that is related to strangeness and is represented by a number equal to twice the average …
- microchargesplural of microcharge: A very small charge (in various senses).