Charge
Charge noun - The act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something.
Usage example: he inherited charge of the Paris bureau after his supervisor quit
Ward is a synonym for charge in person topic. In some cases you can use "Ward" instead a noun "Charge", when it comes to topics like give, custody, burden, free. archaic substitute
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Ward of Hurog is large, and as his father dies at the beginning of the book, in charge of castle Hurog.
Source: Large and in Charge -
They Look Just Like Everyone Else: Remy Callois and Phillip Sertys, the guys in charge of the Eugenics program, were the university librarian and a nurse at the maternity ward.
Source: Film / The Crimson Rivers -
Jonah Jameson looked like he was in charge of a newspaper who starts shouting that he knows everything, then he gets dragged out by a pair of orderlies, and the real guy in charge says that they share the building with a mental ward.
Source: Take That, Scrappy!
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Ward and Charge. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/charge/ward
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