"take on strength" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From take on (“enlist”) + strength (“armed forces”).",
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      "form": "takes on strength",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "strike off strength"
        }
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        {
          "text": "Alternative form: (past participle) TOS"
        },
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          "text": "Taken on strength, 7th Light Horse, 6th April 1915.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, G. W. L. Nicholson, The Fighting Newfoundlander, 2006 edition, page 521:",
          "text": "To assist him in the task of organizing his unit, Lieutenant-Colonel O'Driscoll took on strength a nucleus of officers and N.C.O.'s who had served in the Newfoundland Militia or the Royal Artillery during the Second World War.",
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        "To commission a soldier, animal or vehicle into the service of the armed forces."
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          "vehicle",
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        "(transitive, intransitive, Commonwealth, military, historical) To commission a soldier, animal or vehicle into the service of the armed forces."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take on, strength."
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        [
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  "word": "take on strength"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From take on (“enlist”) + strength (“armed forces”).",
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      "form": "takes on strength",
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    {
      "form": "took on strength",
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