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Synonyms for chargeable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : chahr-juh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɑr dʒə bəl



Définition of chargeable

Origin :
  • late 15c., "burdensome," from charge (v.) + -able. Sense of "subject to a tax or payment" is from 1610s; that of "liable to be made an expense" is from 1640s; that of "liable to be charged" (with an offense, etc.) is from 1660s.
  • adj liable
Example sentences :
  • This was not chargeable against the next volumes to be chronicled.
  • Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
  • I blame this in other women, and should wish not to be chargeable with it myself.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete » by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
  • But Lever is not chargeable either with caricature or concealment.
  • Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II) » by Edmund Downey
  • Some imagine the Duchess his daughter had been chargeable to him.
  • Extract from : « The Diary of John Evelyn, Volume II (of 2) » by John Evelyn
  • If closely enveloped and sealed it is chargeable with letter postage.
  • Extract from : « Ten Years Among the Mail Bags » by James Holbrook
  • This is chargeable to carelessness on the part of the paper-machine tender.
  • Extract from : « From Paper-mill to Pressroom » by William Bond Wheelwright
  • They were, therefore, in a position to be chargeable with the duties to which ch.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible » by George Adam Smith
  • They are not chargeable with the technicalities and dry formalism of the "Books of Moses."
  • Extract from : « Creed And Deed » by Felix Adler
  • No display of a scene like this could be chargeable with redundancy or superfluity.
  • Extract from : « Wieland; or The Transformation » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • Postage was, of course, chargeable on the total journey of the letter.
  • Extract from : « The Development of Rates of Postage » by A. D. Smith

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