phrasal verb với động từ gốc · neutral
put in charge of
UK/pʊt ɪn ˈtʃɑː(r)dʒ əv/US/pʊt ɪn ˈtʃɑrdʒ əv/put·in·CHARGE·of
to give someone responsibility for managing or running something
Examples
“When the manager resigned, they put his deputy in charge of the store until a replacement arrived.”
“For the festival, they put one volunteer in charge of coordinating food stalls.”
“The coach put her in charge of training the junior team for the season.”
Band 8 sentence
“Because the charity expanded quickly, they put a senior volunteer in charge of coordinating donor communications.”
Collocations
- put someone in charge of a project
- be put in charge of organising
- put someone temporarily in charge of
Word family
Common mistakes
put her in charge the team→put her in charge of the team
put someone to charge of→put someone in charge of
make someone in charge→make someone responsible for / put someone in charge of
Say it for a higher band
5make someone responsible for→6assign someone to→7+put in charge of
Synonyms
assign responsibility to
appoint
Easily confused
appoint
“The board appointed her as director last year.”
assign
“They assigned him to the marketing team for three months.”
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