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
- Specialized
A quality in objects that makes them pull together or push apart, called positive and negative
An extra fee each person pays to enter a restaurant or club, not for food and drink
- Specialized
An electrical state when an object has fewer electrons than protons
- Specialized
A state when an object has more electrons than protons and so attracts positive objects, for example a rubbed balloon
- 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
- Archaic
A small metal or plastic plate that people use like an early credit card to pay for goods
A fee paid for a plane landing, take-off, parking, or use of passenger areas at an airport
Money paid for putting equipment or services in place and making them ready
- Specialized
A regular payment that does not change when business changes, like rent or insurance
- Specialized
The total electric charge in a closed system stays the same
A mass attack, especially by Japanese soldiers in World War II, where they rush the enemy while shouting 'banzai'
- Specialized
An amount companies record each year as an expense to show equipment loses value
- Specialized
A payment plan that lets you keep owing money and pay over time
- Jargon
A soldier who stays on duty after hours to deal with problems and visitors
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
- Specialized
A machine that speeds up ions so they leave a hot gas called plasma after swapping electrons
- Archaic
A device that throws explosive charges into the sea to attack submarines from a ship
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.