in charge of
idiom
: having control of or responsibility for (something)
She is in charge of hiring new employees.
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The Palestinian Authority administers parts of the West Bank while its rival, Hamas, is still nominally in charge of Gaza, after driving Abbas' security forces out in a 2007 takeover.
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Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
The new deputy commissioner for human foods is someone named Jim Jones, who was in charge of the pesticide review program and other chemical review program at the EPA for a long time.
—Jonquilyn Hill, Vox, 5 Nov. 2024
The complaint alleges that Michael Hoffman, the RNC’s election integrity director in Wisconsin, questioned the commission’s executive director over email after learning some chief election inspectors — the people in charge of voting sites — were limiting observers.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
Cramer, who is in charge of administering elections in Charleston County, South Carolina, said the county has spent more than $500,000 since 2020 in security, plus a new building that will ultimately cost upwards of $7 million.
—Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 3 Nov. 2024
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Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
The new deputy commissioner for human foods is someone named Jim Jones, who was in charge of the pesticide review program and other chemical review program at the EPA for a long time.
—Jonquilyn Hill, Vox, 5 Nov. 2024
The complaint alleges that Michael Hoffman, the RNC’s election integrity director in Wisconsin, questioned the commission’s executive director over email after learning some chief election inspectors — the people in charge of voting sites — were limiting observers.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
Cramer, who is in charge of administering elections in Charleston County, South Carolina, said the county has spent more than $500,000 since 2020 in security, plus a new building that will ultimately cost upwards of $7 million.
—Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 3 Nov. 2024
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