Idiom: in charge (of someone/something)

Meaning

Idiom: in charge (of someone/something)

to have control over someone or something and be responsible for it (and its performance)

Example sentences

— This is Maria. She’s in charge of ordering supplies so please let her know what you need.

— Can you please tell me who is in charge of hiring? I would like to apply for a job.

— Hello, I'd like to speak to the person who's in charge of your billing department please?

— The one thing that I don't like about this job is being in charge of the Christmas party so I've asked my supervisor if someone else could do it from now on.

— Do you know who's in charge of the annual conference this year?

— Who's in charge of changing the toner in the copier? I need to make color copies as soon as possible.

— We've lost five employees since Kaitlyn became in charge of the marketing department.

— When I worked for Lego, I was in charge of managing their product testing.

— I see on your CV that you worked as a manager at Microsoft. Can you tell me about that position and how many employees you were in charge of?

— Are you in charge here? I want to complain about one of your sales people.

— No one wants to be in charge of social media here so they keep trying to make me do that work.

— Who's in charge of the Blackwater account? They haven't paid for our services in more than five months.

— I'm grateful I'm no longer in charge of the gala. Sarah is on maternity leave and Sloane's husband has been relocated to Tokyo for work so she just resigned.

Synonyms

in control
responsible for
at the helm

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Idiom: in charge (of someone/something)

Meaning

Example sentences

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