take in charge

1. 1.

   accept as a charge

   Synonymsundertake

   Broaderaccept

Questions about take in charge

What does take in charge mean?

take in charge means "accept as a charge".

What is another word for take in charge?

Close synonyms include undertake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take in charge a common word?

take in charge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.