in charge of
idiom
: having control of or responsibility for (something)
She is in charge of hiring new employees.
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The top assistant to the former executive in charge of the San Diego County Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board has been named interim leader of the oversight panel until a permanent successor can be recruited.
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Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
Within a minute, police officers on both ends of the bridge were ordered to stop traffic crossing the bridge, said Marcel Muise, the NTSB investigator in charge of the collapse inquiry.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
For the announcement, King was joined by N.C. FBI special agent our style is not Robert DeWitt and Donald Eakins, special agent in charge of criminal investigation for the Internal Revenue Service in Charlotte.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
Marcel Muise, the board’s investigator in charge of the investigation, said the agency recovered six hours of audio from the ship’s data recorder.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
With an emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, Wilder will be in charge of talent management, organizational development and training, employee relations, compensation and benefits, HR systems and practices, and employee resource affinity groups.
—Jaden Thompson, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
Its Chapel of the Assumption is expected to be done in 2025, and the Tower of Jesus Christ will follow the next year, according to the organization in charge of managing the site.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2024
By contrast, Cummings sees the two cautious, hedging leaders in charge of Britain’s main political parties—and the relief among some centrists that the candidates are not so different from each other—in rather darker terms.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The federal government had accidentally triggered the blaze; now the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in charge of distributing checks to compensate people for the government’s mistake.
—Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2024
Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
Within a minute, police officers on both ends of the bridge were ordered to stop traffic crossing the bridge, said Marcel Muise, the NTSB investigator in charge of the collapse inquiry.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
For the announcement, King was joined by N.C. FBI special agent our style is not Robert DeWitt and Donald Eakins, special agent in charge of criminal investigation for the Internal Revenue Service in Charlotte.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
Marcel Muise, the board’s investigator in charge of the investigation, said the agency recovered six hours of audio from the ship’s data recorder.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
With an emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, Wilder will be in charge of talent management, organizational development and training, employee relations, compensation and benefits, HR systems and practices, and employee resource affinity groups.
—Jaden Thompson, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
Its Chapel of the Assumption is expected to be done in 2025, and the Tower of Jesus Christ will follow the next year, according to the organization in charge of managing the site.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2024
By contrast, Cummings sees the two cautious, hedging leaders in charge of Britain’s main political parties—and the relief among some centrists that the candidates are not so different from each other—in rather darker terms.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The federal government had accidentally triggered the blaze; now the Federal Emergency Management Agency was in charge of distributing checks to compensate people for the government’s mistake.
—Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2024
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