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vb. (en-third-person singulartake charge)
Usage examples of "takes charge".
Camoena, who teaches to sing: let him be both the god Consus for granting counsel, and the goddess Sentia for inspiring sentences: let him be the goddess Juventas, who, after the robe of boyhood is laid aside, takes charge of the beginning of the youthful age: let him be Fortuna barbata, who endues adults with a beard, whom they have not chosen to honor.
Considering Anor's opening salvo against the Republic a failure, and also believing him dead, a new Yuuzhan Vong leader, Shedao Shai, takes charge of the next wave of the invasion effort.
And without Price or Beauregard who takes charge of the Western forces?
All that's left to do is press the button and the autopilot takes charge.
They think they can fight any war, win it, send a few of their own people down to hold the conquered planet until the Diplomatic Corps takes charge.