Payment vs. Charge — What's the Difference?

A payment is the voluntary tender of money or its equivalent or of things of value by one party (such as a person or company) to another in exchange for goods, or services provided by them, or to fulfill a legal obligation. The party making a payment is commonly called the payer, while the payee is the party receiving the payment.

Demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied

The act of paying or the state of being paid.

Formally accuse (someone) of something, especially an offence under law

An amount paid

Entrust (someone) with a task as a duty or responsibility

One's due, reward, or punishment; requital.

Store electrical energy in (a battery or battery-operated device)

(uncountable) The act of paying.

Rush forward in attack

(countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange#Noun for goods or services, or the transaction#Noun that conveys it.

Place a heraldic bearing on

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

A price asked for goods or services

That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.

An accusation, typically one formally made against a prisoner brought to trial

Punishment; chastisement.

Responsibility for the care or control of someone or something

A sum of money paid

The property of matter that is responsible for electrical phenomena, existing in a positive or negative form.

The act of paying money

A quantity of explosive to be detonated in order to fire a gun or similar weapon

A headlong rush forward, typically in attack

A device or bearing placed on a shield or crest.

To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on

To instruct or urge authoritatively; command

(Law) To instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.

To set or ask (a given amount) as a price

To hold financially liable; demand payment from

To purchase on credit

To load to capacity; fill

To load (a gun or other firearm) with a quantity of explosive

To pervade or fill, as with a feeling or quality

To make a claim of wrongdoing against; accuse or blame

To put the blame for; attribute or impute

To rush against in an attack

(Basketball) To bump or run into (a defender) illegally while in possession of the ball or having just made a pass or shot.

(Sports) To bump (an opponent) so as to knock off balance or gain control of the ball, as in soccer.

(Sports) To body-check (an opponent) illegally, from behind or after taking more than two strides, especially in ice hockey.

To cause formation of a net electric charge on or in (a conductor, for example).

To energize (a storage battery) by passing current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.

To excite; rouse

To direct or put (a weapon) into position for use; level or direct.

(Heraldry) To place a charge on (an escutcheon).

To rush forward in an attack

To rush forward; run

To demand or ask payment

To make a purchase or purchases on credit.

(Accounting) To consider or record as a loss. Often used with off.

To become energized

Expense; cost

The price asked for something

A debt or an entry in an account recording a debt

A financial burden, such as a tax or lien.

A weight or burden; a load

The quantity that a container or apparatus can hold.

A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.

An assigned duty or task; a responsibility

Care; custody

Supervision; management

One that is entrusted to another's care or management

An order, command, or injunction.

Instruction given by a judge to a jury about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.

A claim of wrongdoing; an accusation

A rushing, forceful attack

The command to attack

The intrinsic property of matter responsible for all electric phenomena, in particular for the electromagnetic force, occurring in two forms arbitrarily designated negative and positive.

The net measure of this property possessed by a body or contained in a bounded region of space, measured in coulombs, ampere-hours, or units of elementary charge. Also called electric charge.

See magnetic charge.

See color charge.

(Informal) A feeling of pleasant excitement; a thrill

(Heraldry) A figure or device represented on the field of an escutcheon.

The amount of money levied for a service.

(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

A forceful forward movement.

An accusation.

An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.

An accusation by a person or organization.

An electric charge.

The scope of someone's responsibility.

Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

A load or burden; cargo.

An instruction.

(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

(by extension) A measured amount of explosive.

(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.

(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

(farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.

(obsolete) Weight; import; value.

A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

To assign a duty or responsibility to.

(transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.

(transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.

(ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).

(dated) To sell at a given price.

(law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

To impute or ascribe.

To call to account; to challenge.

(transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

To ornament with or cause to bear.

(heraldry) To assume as a bearing.

(heraldry) To add to or represent on.

(transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.

(transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.

(transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.

To replenish energy.

(intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.

(basketball) To commit a charging foul.

To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.

To lie on the belly and be still. A command given by a hunter to a dog

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.

To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.

To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.

To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.

To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.

To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.

To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.

To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.

To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.

To call to account; to challenge.

To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.

To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.

To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.

To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.

To squat on its belly and be still; - a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.

A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.

Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.

Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.

Harm.

An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.

An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.

An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.

Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; - usually in the plural.

The price demanded for a thing or service.

An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.

That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time

The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.

A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.

A sort of plaster or ointment.

Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; - called also charre.

Weight; import; value.

(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense;

The price charged for some article or service;

An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence;

Request for payment of a debt;

A impetuous rush toward someone or something;

The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons;

Financial liabilities (such as a tax);

A person committed to your care;

Attention and management implying responsibility for safety;

A special assignment that is given to a person or group;

A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something;

A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time;

The swift release of a store of affective force;

(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object;

Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle;

Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against;

Demand payment;

Move quickly and violently;

Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to;

File a formal charge against;

Make an accusatory claim;

Fill or load to capacity;

Enter a certain amount as a charge;

Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution;

Give over to another for care or safekeeping;

Pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt;

Lie down on command, of hunting dogs

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused;

Place a heraldic bearing on;

Provide with munition;

Direct into a position for use;

Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to;

Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence

Instruct or command with authority;

Attribute responsibility to;

Set or ask for a certain price;

Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on;

Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge;

Saturate;