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What you owe, what you accuse, and what gets the bull running — same word, three lives.
means Charges are amounts billed for goods or services, formal accusations of wrongdoing, or the act of rushing forward aggressively.
from From Latin carricare, to load a wagon (carrus) — every meaning is something loaded onto you: a fee, a blame, an electron, a forward rush.
Electric cousinSame root powers batteries and credit cards alike.
Legal weightTo be charged is to be formally loaded with blame.
Hidden feesBanks earned billions yearly on overdraft charges alone.