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Word Meanings - BOXKEEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

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  • CHARGEANT
    Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
  • CHARGEABLE
    1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
  • CHARGE
    1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
  • CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
    A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
  • CHARGELESS
    Free from, or with little, charge.
  • THEATER; THEATRE
    1. An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed. 2. Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before
  • CHARGEABLENESS
    The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
  • ATTENDANT
    Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
  • CHARGEOUS
    Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
  • CHARGEABLY
    At great cost; expensively.
  • CHARGER
    1. One who, or that which charges. 2. An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge. 3. A large dish. Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8. 4. A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed.
  • CHARGEFUL
    Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.
  • CHARGEHOUSE
    A schoolhouse.
  • CHARGESHIP
    The office of a chargé d'affaires.
  • MISCHARGE
    To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
  • ENCHARGE
    To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
  • OVERCHARGE
    1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
  • UNCHARGE
    1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
  • SURCHARGEMENT
    The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
  • OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
    Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
  • RECHARGE
    1. To charge or accuse in return. 2. To attack again; to attack anew. Dryden.
  • SURCHARGER
    One who surcharges.
  • DOUBLE-CHARGE
    1. To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. 2. To overcharge. Shak.
  • UNDERCHARGE
    1. To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services. 2. To put too small a charge into; as, to undercharge a gun. Undercharged mine , a mine whose crater is not as wide at top as it is
  • DISCHARGER
    One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
  • DISCHARGE
    1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge

 

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