Word Meanings - MISCHARGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.

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• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• ACCOUNTABILITY
  The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• ACCOUNTABLE
  1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden
• ACCOUNT BOOK
  A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• CHARGEOUS
  Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
• ACCOUNTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
• ACCOUNTABLY
  In an accountable manner.
• CHARGEABLY
  At great cost; expensively.
• CHARGER
  1. One who, or that which charges. 2. An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge. 3. A large dish. Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8. 4. A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed.
• CHARGEFUL
  Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.
• ACCOUNT
  1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak. 2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings
• CHARGEHOUSE
  A schoolhouse.
• CHARGESHIP
  The office of a chargé d'affaires.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• RECHARGE
  1. To charge or accuse in return. 2. To attack again; to attack anew. Dryden.
• SURCHARGER
  One who surcharges.
• DOUBLE-CHARGE
  1. To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. 2. To overcharge. Shak.