chargeable

Etymology

charge + -able

adj

  1. (of expenses etc.) That may be charged to an account.
    In summary, the variation of a lease for consideration is generally chargeable to SDLT. 2006, Michael Thomas, David Goy, Stamp Duty Land Tax, page 172
  2. (rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
    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. 1865, Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Criminal Law, volume 2, page 380
  3. imputable
    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.

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