TAKE CHARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take charge mean? 

• TAKE CHARGE (verb)
  The verb TAKE CHARGE has 1 sense:

1. assume control

  Familiarity information: TAKE CHARGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE CHARGE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assume control

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

take charge; take control; take hold

Hypernyms (to "take charge" is one way to...):

head; lead (be in charge of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take charge"):

move in on (seize control of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

If you will take charge of them, Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He went to town on business three days ago, and I got him to take charge of some papers which I was wanting to send to John.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“May I tell her as you doen't see no hurt in't, and as you'll be so kind as take charge on't, Mas'r Davy?” said Mr. Peggotty, when I had read it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The first officer, Mr. Jack Crocker, had been made a captain and was to take charge of their new ship, the Bass Rock, sailing in two days’ time from Southampton.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Then, what induced you to take charge of such a little doll as that?" (pointing to Adele).

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

‘My sole duties, then,’ I asked, ‘are to take charge of a single child?’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on at the hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Do you take charge of the right; I will hold the centre, and you, my Lord of Angus, the left.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If Mr. Copperfield should yet remember one unknown to fame, will Mr. T. take charge of my unalterable regards and similar entreaties?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I already regretted having ever consented to take charge of it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)