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CHARGEABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chargeable mean?
• CHARGEABLE (adjective)
The adjective CHARGEABLE has 1 sense:
1. liable to be accused, or cause for such liability
Familiarity information: CHARGEABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Liable to be accused, or cause for such liability
Synonyms:
chargeable; indictable
Context example:
an indictable offense
Similar:
guilty (responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act)
Context examples
He wondered to hear me talk of such chargeable and expensive wars; that certainly we must be a quarrelsome people, or live among very bad neighbours, and that our generals must needs be richer than our kings.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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