The difference between Charge and Imposition

When used as nouns, charge means the scope of someone's responsibility, whereas imposition means the act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

Charge is also verb with the meaning: to assign a duty or responsibility to.

check bellow for the other definitions of Charge and Imposition

  1. Charge as a noun:

    The scope of someone's responsibility.

    Examples:

    "The child was in the nanny's charge."

  2. Charge as a noun:

    Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

    Examples:

    "The child was a charge of the nanny."

  3. Charge as a noun:

    A load or burden; cargo.

    Examples:

    "The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings."

  4. Charge as a noun:

    The amount of money levied for a service.

    Examples:

    "There will be a charge of five dollars."

  5. Charge as a noun:

    An instruction.

    Examples:

    "I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month."

  6. Charge as a noun (military):

    A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

    Examples:

    "Pickett did not die leading his famous charge."

  7. Charge as a noun:

    An accusation.

    Examples:

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    "That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust."

  8. Charge as a noun (physics, and, chemistry):

    An electric charge.

  9. Charge as a noun (basketball):

    An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

  10. Charge as a noun:

    A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.

  11. Charge as a noun (heraldry):

    An image displayed on an escutcheon.

  12. Charge as a noun:

    A forceful forward movement.

  13. Charge as a noun (weaponry):

    A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

    Examples:

    "to bring a weapon to the charge'"

  14. Charge as a noun (farriery):

    A sort of plaster or ointment.

  15. Charge as a noun (obsolete):

    Weight; import; value.

  16. Charge as a noun (historical, or, obsolete):

    A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a .

  17. Charge as a noun (ecclesiastical):

    An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

  1. Charge as a verb:

    To assign a duty or responsibility to.

  2. Charge as a verb (transitive):

    To assign (a debit) to an account.

    Examples:

    "Let's charge this to marketing."

  3. Charge as a verb (transitive):

    To pay on account, by using a credit card.

    Examples:

    "Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?"

    "Can I charge this purchase?"

  4. Charge as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).

    Examples:

    "to charge high for goods'' ''I won't charge you for the wheat"

  5. Charge as a verb (possibly archaic):

    To sell at a given price.

    Examples:

    "to charge coal at $5 per unit"

  6. Charge as a verb (law):

    To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

    Examples:

    "I'm charging you with assault and battery."

  7. Charge as a verb:

    To impute or ascribe.

  8. Charge as a verb:

    To call to account; to challenge.

  9. Charge as a verb (transitive):

    To place a burden or load on or in. To ornament with or cause to bear. To assume as a bearing. To add to or represent on.

    Examples:

    "to charge an architectural member with a moulding"

    "He charges three roses."

    "He charges his shield with three roses or."

  10. Charge as a verb (transitive):

    To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials. To cause to take on an electric charge. To add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery). (Of a battery or a device containing a battery) To gain energy.

    Examples:

    "Charge your weapons; we're moving up."

    "Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly."

    "He charged the battery overnight."

    "Don't forget to charge the drill."

    "I charge my phone every night."

    "The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet."

    "His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever."

  11. Charge as a verb (intransitive):

    To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. To attack by moving forward quickly in a group. To commit a charging foul. To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.

    Examples:

    "The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines."

  12. Charge as a verb (transitive, of a, hunting dog):

    To lie on the belly and be still .

  1. Imposition as a noun:

    The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

  2. Imposition as a noun:

    That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.

  3. Imposition as a noun:

    An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.

  4. Imposition as a noun (printing):

    Arrangement of a printed product's pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.

  5. Imposition as a noun (religion):

    A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.

  6. Imposition as a noun (UK):

    A task imposed on a student as punishment.

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