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- noun Plural form of
charge . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
charge .
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Examples
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These two charges so drawn towards each other will, so to speak, bind each other, and they are referred to as _bound charges_.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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And further, as Captain Hawkins 'testimony was necessary in two of the charges, the King, _on those charges_, was the prosecutor.
Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820
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Around € 1.5 billion in charges is related to the revaluation of assets — such as power plants — acquired from Italy's Enel Spa and Spain's Acciona SA and Endesa SA in 2008.
E.ON Warns of $3.6 Billion in Charges Jan Hromadko 2010
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The character's incessant attempts to force food (or more often tea) on her charges is a running joke throughout the series.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008
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The character's incessant attempts to force food (or more often tea) on her charges is a running joke throughout the series.
Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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In another show of military display, Saddam met with 30 top army commanders in a televised broadcast in which he called charges that Iraq has been keeping weapons of mass destruction quote "a great lie."
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If we like to think of the electrons as being merely what I call their charges, then the charges act at a distance.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Appear promptly at the palace at ten o'clock to answer to the followin 'charges, to wit: breach of the peace; seditious and treasonable utterance; violent assault on the chief magistrate with intent to cut, wound, maim, an' bruise; breach of quarantine; violation of harbour regulations; and gross breakage of custom house rules.
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Somewhere in all those charges is a teesie weesie one that is true!
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The new offering, which requires a one-time payment to reserve compute capacity and lowers hourly charges, is targeted at larger enterprise customers.
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