to charge
- verb
- /tʃɑrdʒ/
- Formal
- Further, administrators may be charged with communicating academic priorities to parents and the community.
- charged with responsibility
- charged with the task
- charged with overseeing
Examples
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Educators have been charged with closing the performance gap between majority and minority students.
Academic text (2013) -
I charge you with the responsibility of planning this year's company event.
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With that in mind, the Shared Records Pilot Task Group was charged in 2010.
Academic text (2013) -
I charge you to stand up and cheer for your section's knight.
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Therefore, teachers are charged with finding ways to implement technology in the writing classroom.
Academic text (2013) -
Next, the students were charged with the task of recreating the basic game.
Academic text (2012) -
The group then selects a spokesperson as its proxy in the litigation, charging her with conveying the group's sentiments.
Academic text (2017) -
As the team leader, I charge my members to complete their tasks by the end of the week.
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The principal charged the new teachers with ensuring that all students received the support they needed.
Synonyms
Officially choose someone for a job or role
Give someone a specific task, duty, or position of responsibility
To give orders and control people or things
To give someone a piece of work they must do
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To move quickly and forcefully forward across a playing field in sports to try to score
Compounds
An extra fee each person pays to enter a restaurant or club, not for food and drink
- Specialized
A buildup of electricity on the surface of an object that does not let it move
- Formal
A diplomat who acts as head of an embassy when the ambassador is away
- Specialized
A quality in objects that makes them pull together or push apart, called positive and negative
- Specialized
A state when an object has more electrons than protons and so attracts positive objects, for example a rubbed balloon
- Specialized
An electrical state when an object has fewer electrons than protons
- Archaic
A small metal or plastic plate that people use like an early credit card to pay for goods
Money paid for putting equipment or services in place and making them ready
An amount of money residents pay regularly to cover shared building costs like cleaning and repairs
A way to buy now at a shop and pay later up to a set limit you can repay anytime
- Jargon
A soldier who stays on duty after hours to deal with problems and visitors
- Specialized
A machine that speeds up ions so they leave a hot gas called plasma after swapping electrons
- Specialized
An amount companies record each year as an expense to show equipment loses value
- Archaic
A device that throws explosive charges into the sea to attack submarines from a ship
A fee paid for a plane landing, take-off, parking, or use of passenger areas at an airport
A mass attack, especially by Japanese soldiers in World War II, where they rush the enemy while shouting 'banzai'
- Specialized
A regular payment that does not change when business changes, like rent or insurance
- Specialized
A payment plan that lets you keep owing money and pay over time
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Charge comes from a root meaning 'to load', so to charge someone with a duty is to place a responsibility on them. That's why being charged with a task means you are the one who must do it.