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take charge

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. take hold, take charge, take controlverb

    assume control

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  1. take chargeverb

    to assume control or responsibility

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  1. Take Charge

    Take the Charge is a government program that provides free family planning and pregnancy prevention services to low-income residents of Washington state. The program expands Medicaid coverage for family planning services to individuals whose income is 200% or lower than the federal poverty level (FPL). By reducing the prevalence of unintended pregnancies, the goal of the program is to improve public health while reducing Federal and State Medicaid costs of unplanned pregnancies and their consequences. As of November 2007, there were 200 clinics in Washington providing the program's services.

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  1. take charge

    To take charge means to assume control or responsibility for something or someone. It often involves making decisions, managing situations, and directing or supervising others.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of take charge in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of take charge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of take charge in a Sentence

  1. Geoffrey F. Albert:

    When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.

  2. Tim Walz:

    The way this works is that the mayors ask and they take charge and lead on the missions.

  3. Francis Collins:

    I don't want to have us, a year from now, having a conversation about how we have in our hands the solution to the worst pandemic of more than 100 years, but we haven't been able to actually convince people to take charge of it.

  4. Le Drian:

    We're at a forum in Dakar talking about the need for Africans to collectively take charge of their security and yet it's not happening where there is urgency, everybody distrusts everybody. We have to get beyond that.

  5. Devin Nunes:

    I believe it is in the best interests of the House Intelligence Committee and the Congress for me to have Rep. Mike Conaway, with assistance from Reps. Trey Gowdy and Tom Rooney, temporarily take charge of the committee's Russia investigation while the House Ethics Committee looks into this matter. I will continue to fulfill all my other responsibilities as committee chairman.


Translations for take charge

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  • грижа се заBulgarian
  • hacerse cargoSpanish
  • prendre la direction, prendre en chargeFrench
  • prendere controlloItalian
  • взять на себя ответственностьRussian

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