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take over
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Verb
  • take up, as of debts or payments
    • absorb the costs for something
  • take up and practice as one's own
  • do over
    • They would like to take it over again
  • take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
  • take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
    • I'll accept the charges
    • She agreed to bear the responsibility
  • free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
  • take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
    • When will the new President assume office?
  • seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
    • He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town
    • he usurped my rights
    • She seized control of the throne after her husband died
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