Word.ws English Dictionary

taken charge

taken charge is the past participle of take charge.

Meaning of take charge

Verb

take charge (third-person singular simple present takes charge, present participle taking charge, simple past took charge, past participle taken charge)

  1. Synonym of take control, especially in situations involving informal command over a group of people.
    • The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    take control

Questions about taken charge

What is taken charge the past participle of?
Taken charge is the past participle of take charge.

Words near taken charge in the dictionary

  1. taken by storm
  2. taken by surprise
  3. taken care
  4. taken care of
  5. taken care of business
  6. taken charge
  7. taken check
  8. taken coals to Newcastle
  9. taken cold
  10. taken command
  11. taken control

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: taken charge (page history and authors); take charge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “taken charge.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/taken_charge. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.