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Chargeable vs Charging - What's the difference?

chargeable | charging |

As an adjective chargeable

is that may be charged to an account.

As a verb charging is

present participle of charge.

As a noun charging is

an act or process of charging (as of a battery).

chargeable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That may be charged to an account.
  • (rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
  • * 1865 , Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Criminal Law (volume 2, page 380)
    • 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.

    Quotations

    * 1859 John Thomas Arlidge - On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane *: The law provides for the occasional visitation of pauper lunatics in asylums chargeable to parishes, by a certain number of the officers . . . * 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.

    charging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Present participle of charge.

    • Noun

  • (countable) An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
  • (uncountable, basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
    • Smith is called for charging , and the Nimrods will get the ball.