Chargeable: Definition and part of speech

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Chargeable

  1. a. Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.
  2. a. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.
  3. a. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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