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"sense": "the purchase of a public company",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "overtagelse"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the purchase of a public company",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "przejęcie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the purchase of a public company",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "akwizycja"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "transfer of control",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "overtagelse"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "transfer of control",
"word": "haltuunotto"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "transfer of control",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "overtakelse"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "transfer of control",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "overtagelse"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "transfer of control",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "przejęcie"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "transfer of control",
"word": "prevzatie"
}
],
"word": "takeover"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English deverbals",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English misspellings",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English phrasal nouns",
"English terms with audio links"
],
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"2": "take over"
},
"expansion": "Deverbal from take over",
"name": "deverbal"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Deverbal from take over.",
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"1": "en",
"2": "misspelling"
},
"expansion": "takeover",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
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{
"word": "take over"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of take over"
],
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"take over",
"take over#English"
]
],
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"alternative"
]
}
],
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"audio": "en-us-takeover.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6a/En-us-takeover.ogg/En-us-takeover.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/En-us-takeover.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "take-over"
}
],
"word": "takeover"
}
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