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chargeable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒəbəl/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Latin carrus Latin -ic- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ico Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen English charge Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English chargeable From charge + -able.

Meanings

1. Able to be charged.
   • The battery is chargeable by means of this device.
2. (of expenses etc.) That may be charged to an account.
   • In summary, the variation of a lease for consideration is generally chargeable to SDLT. 2006, Michael Thomas, David Goy, Stamp Duty Land Tax, page 172:
3. (rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
   • Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder. 1865, Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Criminal Law, volume 2, page 380:
4. (of an offense) That one may be legally charged with.
   • Seferian states in the order that he agrees with Carter and the other charging parties that "the actions taken by Sister Levy have had and will continue to have the adverse effects on the union complained of by the charging parties." But Seferian found that Levy committed no chargeable offense since freedom of speech is guaranteed in AFSCME's International Constitution. 1988 April 2, Jud Kempson, “Ann Arbor unionist cleared of charges”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
5. Imputable
   • 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.
6. (archaic) Expensive.
   • A gentleman threatening to go to law, was dissuaded from it by his friends, who desired him to consider, for the law was chargeable. 1865, Joe Miller's Jests, with Copious Additions:

Forms

Deriveds

unchargeable · nonchargeable · chargeably · chargeableness

Translations (1)

pt carregável (Translations)