"take charge" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes charge",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking charge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took charge",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken charge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> charge"
      },
      "expansion": "take charge (third-person singular simple present takes charge, present participle taking charge, simple past took charge, past participle taken charge)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "Capello was missing his son's wedding in Milan to take charge - yet his reshaped England team gave him cause for a double celebration as they overturned the odds in front of a delighted Wembley gallery.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of take control, especially in situations involving informal command over a group of people."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_charge-en-verb-LeBlek0n",
      "links": [
        [
          "take control",
          "take control#English"
        ],
        [
          "especially",
          "especially"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "involving",
          "involving"
        ],
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "command",
          "command"
        ],
        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "especially in situations involving informal command over a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "take control"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take charge"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes charge",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking charge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took charge",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken charge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> charge"
      },
      "expansion": "take charge (third-person singular simple present takes charge, present participle taking charge, simple past took charge, past participle taken charge)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "Capello was missing his son's wedding in Milan to take charge - yet his reshaped England team gave him cause for a double celebration as they overturned the odds in front of a delighted Wembley gallery.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of take control, especially in situations involving informal command over a group of people."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take control",
          "take control#English"
        ],
        [
          "especially",
          "especially"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "involving",
          "involving"
        ],
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "command",
          "command"
        ],
        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "especially in situations involving informal command over a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "take control"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take charge"
}