charger

From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑːdʒə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)

charger (plural chargers)

1. A device that charges or recharges.

   Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.

2. One who charges.
   • 2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred:

     That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.

3. (historical, military) A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry (of a lighter build than a destrier).

   The knight rode a white charger.

   • 1938, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Homage to Catalonia‎, London: Secker & Warburg:

     My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed.

4. A large platter.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 14:8:

     And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

5. A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal; also service plate or underplate.

   The fancy restaurant used a white porcelain charger when serving.

6. (firearms) A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
7. (prison) A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.
   • 2004, Brian Helgeland, Man on Fire, 01:44:10 from the start:

     "See this? This is a charger. It's used by convicts to hide money and drugs. They stick it in their body, they tuck it up their rectum."

8. Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”)
   • 1980, Bill Gulley; Mary Ellen Reese, Breaking Cover, page 161:

     Miller had a new executive officer, a real charger, as they're known in the trade, who was looking into all aspects of the operation up there.

• battery charger

From Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”). Compare Spanish cargar.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.ʒe/

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• Homophones: chargé, chargée, chargées, chargés, chargeai, chargez

charger

1. to load (up) (vehicle, animal etc.)
2. to load (firearm)
3. to charge (battery)
4. to put in charge; to charge (somebody with doing something)
5. to charge (somebody of a crime)
6. (military, sports) to charge
7. (theater) to overact, ham it up
8. (reflexive, se charger de) to take care of, see to

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written charge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

• charger la barque

• Esperanto: ŝarĝi
• Persian: شارژ کردن‎ (šârž kardan)

• “charger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French chargier.

charger

1. to load (with goods, etc.)

• As parler except an extra e is inserted after the final g before a and o.
• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• encharger

• French: charger