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View synonyms for take-charge

take-charge

[ teyk-chahrj ]

adjective

  1. able or seemingly able to take charge:

    She is a take-charge management type.



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Idioms and Phrases

Assume control, command, or responsibility, as in I'll take charge of selling the tickets if you'll do the publicity , or They're not happy about the counselor who took charge of the children . [Late 1300s]
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Example Sentences

And they all focus on tough, take-charge women — often women whose commitment to what they know or think is right can make them a little hard to live with.

Whatever financial pain Trump now faces was rivaled by the damage the decision dealt to his ego and to his image as a jet-setting billionaire and take-charge chief executive, a carefully crafted public face that helped to vault him first into reality-television stardom and then into the White House.

O’Hoppe played 51 games last season, hit 14 home runs, and drew raves from the pitchers for his defensive aptitude and take-charge attitude.

For Mr. DeSantis, who pitches himself as a take-charge, get-it-done leader, “do” is not just a verb.

Yet what they have rarely had is a take-charge locker-room leader.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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