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be charged with doing sth

fixed phr..
B2 Upper Intermediate Oxford

fixed phr.. to be given the official job or responsibility of doing something.

fixed phr.. to be formally assigned a specific task, duty, or responsibility; often used in institutional or professional contexts.


SIMPLE

The committee is charged with finding a new manager.

CONTEXTUAL

After the merger, she was charged with reorganizing the entire marketing department to improve efficiency.

COMPLEX

The newly formed task force was charged with investigating the environmental impact of the proposed industrial expansion.

Usage

usually appears in the passive voice and is followed by the preposition 'with' and a gerund.

Teaching tip

contrast this with the legal sense of 'charged with a crime' to help students distinguish between responsibility and accusation.

Pitfall

He was charged to do the report.He was charged with doing the report.the phrase requires the preposition 'with' followed by a gerund, not an infinitive.

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