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to charge

to charge

79 3.3
Give someone a responsibility or task
  • verb
  • /tʃɑrdʒ/
  • Formal
: encargar (de)
  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The principal charged the new teachers with ensuring that all students received the support they needed.

Synonyms

to appoint
vsto charge
  • Formal
475 3.2

Officially choose someone for a job or role

focuses on assigning duty with authority rather than formal selection
to assign
vsto charge
361 2.7

Give someone a specific task, duty, or position of responsibility

adds authority to instruct others when giving responsibility
to command
vsto charge
312 2.7

To give orders and control people or things

gives responsibility and may include instruction rather than pure control
to task
vsto charge
58 2.6

To give someone a piece of work they must do

covers longer term duties and authority rather than single pieces of work

Antonyms

∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

Idioms

You do not have to pay for it

1 7.8

Has control and confidence when leading others

Phrasal Verbs

101 3.5

Start to control a group or situation and lead others

12 3.5

To connect a battery or device to electricity so it has power

to charge up
  • Informal
7 4.8

To make people feel excited and ready to act

4 7.0

To enjoy something and feel excited by it

Plug a phone into a charger to make the battery work again

To accept responsibility for and control someone or something

1 4.1

To move quickly and forcefully forward across a playing field in sports to try to score

Compounds

75 4.7

A formal claim in court that someone killed another person

14 3.2

A card that lets you buy things and must be paid in full each month

electric charge
  • Specialized
14 3.9

A quality in objects that makes them pull together or push apart, called positive and negative

8 3.9

An extra fee each person pays to enter a restaurant or club, not for food and drink

explosive charge
  • Specialized
7 4.2

An amount of material placed to blow up at one time

An extra amount added to a bill to pay for the staff who served you

depth charge
  • Specialized
6 8.1

A bomb that explodes underwater at a set depth to destroy submarines

An account at a store that lets you buy now and pay later

positive charge
  • Specialized
4 3.9

An electrical state when an object has fewer electrons than protons

negative charge
  • Specialized
4 4.1

A state when an object has more electrons than protons and so attracts positive objects, for example a rubbed balloon

3 5.4

A written list of charges and arrests at a police station

electrostatic charge
  • Specialized
2 6.2

A buildup of electricity on the surface of an object that does not let it move

2 9.0

A diplomat who acts as head of an embassy when the ambassador is away

A fee you pay to enter a place or event

dynamite charge
  • Specialized
1 6.1

An amount of dynamite set to explode and break rock or buildings

charge plate
  • Archaic
1 8.4

A small metal or plastic plate that people use like an early credit card to pay for goods

ionic charge
  • Specialized
1 5.7

The electric charge an atom has after it gains or loses electrons

A small fee for packing and sending an order

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

fixed charge
  • Specialized
1 3.7

A regular payment that does not change when business changes, like rent or insurance

carrying charge
  • Specialized
1 6.8

The cost of keeping goods or assets in storage over time

carrying charge
  • Specialized
1 6.9

A fee charged for keeping an unpaid balance on an account

charge unit
  • Specialized
1 5.6

A standard amount used to measure electric charge, like the coulomb

A fee you pay for returning a rented car to a different place

1 5.1

The total electric charge in a closed system stays the same

1 8.9

An explosive inside a bomb or shell that breaks it open

A mass attack, especially by Japanese soldiers in World War II, where they rush the enemy while shouting 'banzai'

depreciation charge
  • Specialized
1 6.7

An amount companies record each year as an expense to show equipment loses value

1 7.5

A payment plan that lets you keep owing money and pay over time

1 9.2

A soldier who stays on duty after hours to deal with problems and visitors

1 3.5

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

The cost for each item or unit used

9.9

A machine that speeds up ions so they leave a hot gas called plasma after swapping electrons

8.7

A device that throws explosive charges into the sea to attack submarines from a ship

7.0

A tax on products harmful to the environment to make people use them less

How Responsible

to empower
173 4.2
to charge
  • Formal
79 3.3
to entrust
81 4.1
to assign
361 2.7

Surface Forms

charge infinitive
charged past
charged past participle
charging present participle
charges third person singular

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.