Charge and Debt

Charge

Charge noun - Something one must do because of prior agreement.

Usage example: the first charge of our armed forces is to defend this country against enemy attack

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Debt and charge are semantically related in amount due topic. In some cases you can use "Debt" instead a noun "Charge".

Nearby Words: charged, charging, chargeable, charger

Debt noun - Something (as money) which is owed.

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Charge and debt are semantically related in amount due topic. Sometimes you can use "Charge" instead a noun "Debt".

Nearby Word: debtor

old	old charge	old debt
current	current charge	current debt
original	original charge	original debt
initial	initial charge	initial debt
Other adjectives: actual, massive, large, big, great, serious, little, infamous, personal, new, literal.

Cow and Chicken uses a similar joke in an episode where Chicken gets a credit card, with the Red Guy as the debt collector being rather overzealous at making Chicken pay back a twenty-five-cent charge.

Source: Evil Debt Collector
Everybody on Ravnica knows that they're in charge of big business as well as organised crime... and if you owe the Orzhov a debt, you're going to pay it off, even after death.

Source: The Syndicate
That being said, they did a much better job with the provinces, which the player is in charge of building up... Game Over: In most games, running into debt leads to a game-over.

Source: Videogame / Caesar

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