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charge

[chahrj] / tʃɑrdʒ /










VERB
ask a price
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chargé
NOUN
chargé d'affaires
Synonyms


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He didn’t say what the charge level was or what it needed to be upon return or even mention I had an EV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The measure would allow taxpayers with illiquid assets—say, shares in private companies—to stretch out their payments over five years, but at a hefty 7.5% annual interest charge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Under California law, a judge is required to dismiss the poisoning charge if every condition of probation has been followed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

A Bank of America spokesperson told AFP its results would include a $1.2 billion charge weighing on net income by around 17 cents per share.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

It was like a little drumbeat to remind people she was in charge.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

As Petro was traveling to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s interim president, met with U.S. chargé d’affaires Laura Dogu to talk about the future.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

Her new position as chargé d’affaires augments a career that includes senior roles in hostage recovery for the FBI and as ambassador to Nicaragua and Honduras during periods characterized by social and political volatility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

A U.S. diplomatic and security delegation led by chargé d’affaires John McNamara traveled to Venezuela on Friday to conduct logistical and technical evaluations for a possible reopening of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Estonia's foreign ministry said it had summoned Russia's chargé d'affaires and said it was treating the move as a "provocative border incident".

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

Gunning, the English chargé d’affaires, insists that the motive of all her patriotic labours was not benevolence, but an insatiable and unbounded thirst for fame.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley

County prosecutors declined to file charges due to insufficient evidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

But as it stands they are guilty of all charges related to inflating their sponsorship income to the tune of £830m, plus another £90m in expenses.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Palmetto Pig charges $18 plus tax per person for catering, a huge discount compared with the $80 per person the Knot estimates the average couple spends on catering.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Civil charges filed against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging securities fraud were dismissed in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Each new street she trudged down with her three weary charges in tow seemed more packed with unhelpful people than the one before.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

He said France and other EU countries are thinking about “having a common site to several European countries where our ambassadors or chargés d’affaires can be present” in Afghanistan.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

In some countries, high-ranking government officials will not meet with anyone short of a formal U.S. ambassador, shunning the chargés d’affaires who have taken over in the interim.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021

Ministers and chargés d'affaires retire in case of hostilities, but consuls are permitted to remain to watch the interests of their countrymen.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The allowance of a quarter's salary to ministers and chargés d'affaires to defray their expenses home.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 3: Andrew Jackson, 1st term by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson

Thus the ambassador longest at Paris precedes all the other ambassadors at Paris; and the same rule prevails with the ministers and chargés, according to their respective gradations of rank.

From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

The second morning of the trip, I had time for a leisurely lakefront breakfast, one-hour hike, sightseeing tips from a lodge employee and packing while the Kia charged to 100%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at the AI firm as an engineer, was charged federally with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mutual funds have historically charged much lower fees than private funds reserved for sophisticated investors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

An American woman alleged to have been an Islamic State group member caught by anti-IS forces in Syria went on trial in New York on Tuesday, charged with receiving military training from the jihadist group.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Nanuq suddenly seemed to catch a second wind, and he charged straight at Owen and George again.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

By my calculations, with confirmation from chatbot Gemini, I could make it to the lodge without a charging stop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

A local coffee shop and bakery owner was charging his electric Cadillac in the next spot and showed me how to charge my car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Yet as the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in 2022 to fight inflation, tech stocks started charging higher following OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in November 2022, as the below chart shows.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The rough amount of new electric-vehicle charging plugs installed this year so far, on pace with last year, according to charging-industry data firm Paren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

They were trying to shore up their allies and keep them charging across the bridge.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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