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  1. transitive verb To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on: charged him with the task of watching the young swimmers.
  2. transitive verb To set or ask (a given amount) as a price: charges ten dollars for a haircut.
  3. transitive verb To hold financially liable; demand payment from: charged her for the balance due.
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  1. Middle English chargen, to load, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus, Gallic type of wagon, of Celtic origin; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English chargen, rarely charchen, from Old French charger, chargier, French charger, load (also, without assibilation, Old French carkier, Anglo-French *carker (in comp.), later Middle English carken, load, burden, modern English cark), = Provencal Spanish cargar = Portuguese carregar = Italian caricare, from Middle Latin carricare, caricare, load (a car), from Latin carrus, a car, wagon: see car. Hence also (from Middle Latin carricare) English cark, cargo, carack = carick = carrick, caricature, etc., and in comp. discharge, surcharge: see these words, and cf. charge, n.
  2. from Middle English charge, from Old French charge, carge, French charge = Provencal Spanish Portuguese carga = Italian carica (Middle Latin *carrica, carga), feminine, a load (also without assibilation, Old French (Anglo-French) *carc, kark, later Middle English cark, a load, anxiety, modern English cark, anxiety), = Spanish cargo (later English cargo), a load, = Portuguese cargo, a charge, office, = Italian carico, carco, a load, etc. (see cargo); from the verb.
  3. Middle English, apparently from Old French chargé, past participle of charger, load: see charge, v.
 

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