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What does in charge mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word in charge? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having the responsibility of leading or overseeing.
  2. Having the power of command or control.
  3. (dated) Being in the care of someone else.
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The doctor in charge of the case duly informed the social worker and the police of her well-founded suspicions.
The simple reason is the people in charge of spending the money are not accountable to anyone.
The matron, who was in charge of us, was a formidable figure and you didn't want to get in her bad books.
The monk in charge of an abbey was the abbot, elected for life by the brethren.
He resigned, and now there's an acting director of FEMA, but really, you are the man here in charge of operations.
I guess it's a good job that I am unlikely to be put in charge of any hospitals any time soon.

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