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charges

  • plural
    of charge.
    charge
    verb (used with object)
    to impose or ask as a price or fee.
  • present tense form
    of charge (3rd person singular).
    charge
    verb (used with object)
    to impose or ask as a price or fee.
chargés
  • plural
    of chargé.
    charge
    verb (used with object)
    to impose or ask as a price or fee.

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Starnes’s attorney, Brian Gurwitz, said in an email Friday evening that his client denies the charges and was “eager for the truth to be presented in a courtroom.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Now, he faces felony charges stemming from the undercover operation.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

No charges have been filed as of Friday morning.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

That is why Australia’s BHP plans to test a Caterpillar system that charges trucks while they are operating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

If you haven’t been charged with a crime, are you willing to risk the possibility that fighting the forfeiture might prompt the government to file criminal charges against you?

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

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

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