take in charge
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Definition
- Verb:
- To accept responsibility for someone or something; to assume control or care: The phrase "take in charge" means to formally or willingly accept the duty of managing, supervising, or being responsible for a person, task, or situation.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- The new manager will take in charge of the department starting next Monday.
- After the accident, a senior officer took the investigation in charge.
- She agreed to take the orphaned children in charge until a permanent home was found.
Advanced Usage
- "to take someone/something in charge": This construction explicitly states what or who is being accepted as a responsibility.
- The charity took the stray animals in charge.
- The phrase often implies a formal or official assumption of responsibility, especially in institutional, legal, or organizational contexts.
Variants and Related Words
- Take charge (of) (phrasal verb): To assume control, command, or responsibility. This is a more common variant.
- When the team leader fell ill, she had to take charge of the project.
- Charge (noun): Responsibility, care, or control.
- She was given charge of the new interns.
Synonyms
- Assume responsibility for: To take on a duty or obligation.
- Take over: To begin to control or be responsible for something.
- Undertake: To commit oneself to and begin (a task or responsibility).
Related Phrases
- Take under one's wing: To take someone into one's care and protection.
- The experienced artist took the young prodigy under her wing.
- Be in charge of: To have responsibility for or control over.
- Who is in charge of the budget?
Notes on Usage
- The phrase "take in charge" is less frequent in everyday modern English than the simpler "take charge of." It is often found in more formal or dated texts.
- It is a transitive verb phrase and requires a direct object (what is being taken in charge).
Verb
- accept as a charge