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Take over

verb

Verb

1
To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
"Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases."
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take up, as of debts or payments wordnet
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To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
"He will take over the job permanently when the accountant retires."
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take over ownership of; of corporations and companies wordnet
5
To relieve someone temporarily.
"My husband is taking over the accounts department during the holiday period, while the chief accountant is away."

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seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession wordnet
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To buy out the ownership of a business.
"Acme Motors is to take Jetcar Industries over this week, if all goes as planned."
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take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person wordnet
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To appropriate something without permission.
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take up and practice as one's own wordnet
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To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
"Ancient Rome took over lands throughout the known world."
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take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities wordnet
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To become more successful than (someone or something else). intransitive, transitive
"Buzz Lightyear has taken over Woody as the most popular children's toy."
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free someone temporarily from his or her obligations wordnet
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
"He took the car over to the garage."
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do over wordnet

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