Capable of being charged; able to accept or hold an electrical charge or to have something placed as a financial obligation upon it.
From 'charge' (from Old French 'charger,' meaning to load) plus '-able' suffix meaning capable of. The word evolved from the literal sense of loading cargo to modern uses in electricity and accounting.
This word competes with 'chargeable' as the standard spelling, which makes it a case study in how English tolerates variant spellings. Most dictionaries now prefer 'chargeable,' but 'chargable' persists in some technical contexts.
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