take over
verb- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty. · He will take over the job permanently when the accountant retires.
- To relieve someone temporarily. · My husband is taking over the accounts department during the holiday period, while the chief accountant is away.· If you will take over driving, I'd like to get some sleep.
- To buy out the ownership of a business. · Acme Motors is to take Jetcar Industries over this week, if all goes as planned.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer. · Ancient Rome took over lands throughout the known world.
- To become more successful than (someone or something else). · Buzz Lightyear has taken over Woody as the most popular children's toy.· Tiger Woods has taken over as the top golfer.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over. · He took the car over to the garage.
From the library
It means no good to anyone of the name of Baskerville, and very glad I shall be to be quit of it all on the day that Sir Henry’s new servants are ready to take over the Hall.”
A friend of mine was moving abroad and asked me to take over her hives for a summer.
Consequently, they are often reluctant to take over their parents' demanding culinary businesses.
Alvarez, the quiet chemistry teacher, would take over the practices.
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