chargeable

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒəbəl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Able to be charged.
    — The battery is chargeable by means of this device.
  2. That may be charged to an account.
    — In summary, the variation of a lease for consideration is generally chargeable to SDLT.
  3. Liable to be accused (either formally or informally). rare
    — 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.
  4. 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.
  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. Expensive. archaic
    — A gentleman threatening to go to law, was dissuaded from it by his friends, who desired him to consider, for the law was chargeable.

词形变化

more chargeable comparative most chargeable superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
chargeableness chargeably nonchargeable unchargeable

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós
Proto-Celtic *karros
Gaulish *karrosbor.
Late Latin carrus
Late Latin -ico
Late Latin carricō
Late Latin carricāre
Old French chargierder.
Middle English chargen
English charge
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English chargeable
From charge + -able.
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