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{
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{
"form": "takes over",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"participle",
"present"
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},
{
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},
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},
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{
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{
"text": "He took the car over to the garage."
}
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over."
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"take",
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"ref": "1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21",
"text": "In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 February 23, Barry Doe, “Liverpool & Manchester Atlas is excellent value”, in RAIL, number 951, page 61",
"text": "I was also interested to hear that he is taking over the time-honoured Rail Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland, following Stuart Baker's death in November 2020.",
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}
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"To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp."
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"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "oorneem"
},
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"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "apoderar"
},
{
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiēguǎn",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "接管"
},
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"sense": "to assume control",
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"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "佔領"
},
{
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"roman": "zhànlǐng",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "占领"
},
{
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "overnemen"
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"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "ottaa haltuunsa"
},
{
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"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "reprendre"
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"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "taka við"
},
{
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"sense": "to assume control",
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"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "引き受ける"
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"sense": "to assume control",
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"_dis1": "2 83 3 2 4 3 1 1",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "tomar posse"
},
{
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"roman": "bratʹ na sebjá",
"sense": "to assume control",
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],
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"sense": "to assume control",
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{
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"word": "apoderarse"
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"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "enseñorearse"
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"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
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"ref": "2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record",
"text": "McCoist unexpectedly ushered back a defender of his own with Kirk Broadfoot taking over from Steven Whittaker. There was, of course, another change, Kyle Bartley stepping in at centre-half to replace suspended Dorin Goian.",
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},
{
"text": "My husband is taking over the accounts department during the holiday period, while the chief accountant is away.",
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{
"text": "If you will take over driving, I'd like to get some sleep.",
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"To relieve someone temporarily."
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"word": "toimia sijaisena"
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"word": "remplacer"
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{
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "incaricare"
},
{
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "overta"
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{
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"word": "prevziať"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 1 92 1 1 1 3",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "reemplazar"
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"ref": "2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70",
"text": "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.",
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{
"text": "Acme Motors is to take Jetcar Industries over this week, if all goes as planned.",
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"To buy out the ownership of a business."
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"_dis1": "2 2 2 2 84 3 4 2",
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"word": "ostaa"
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 2 2 84 3 4 2",
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"sense": "to buy out",
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{
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"word": "overta"
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{
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to appropriate without permission",
"word": "vallata"
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{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 3 4 81 3 2",
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"sense": "to appropriate without permission",
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"word": "zmocniť sa"
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{
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"text": "Ancient Rome took over lands throughout the known world.",
"type": "example"
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"To annex a territory by conquest or invasion."
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[
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"word": "valloittaa"
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{
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"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "vallata"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 2 1 5 5 84 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "impossessarsi"
},
{
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "annettere"
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{
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "ta over"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 2 1 5 5 84 1",
"code": "nb",
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"sense": "to annex a territory",
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{
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "to annex a territory",
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{
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "anexar"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 2 1 5 5 84 1",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "anexionar"
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{
"text": "Buzz Lightyear has taken over Woody as the most popular children's toy.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Tiger Woods has taken over as the top golfer.",
"type": "example"
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"glosses": [
"To become more successful (than someone or something else)."
],
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"(transitive, intransitive) To become more successful (than someone or something else)."
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"sense": "to become more successful than",
"word": "overtake"
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"sense": "to become more successful than",
"word": "surpass"
}
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"_dis1": "3 0 1 2 1 1 0 91",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "tulla joksikin"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "prendere il posto"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 0 1 2 1 1 0 91",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "overta"
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{
"_dis1": "3 0 1 2 1 1 0 91",
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "vystriedať"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 0 1 2 1 1 0 91",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "predstihnúť"
}
]
}
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"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
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{
"form": "takes over",
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"word": "Not to be confused with overtake"
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"text": "He took the car over to the garage."
}
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over."
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"ref": "1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21",
"text": "In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 February 23, Barry Doe, “Liverpool & Manchester Atlas is excellent value”, in RAIL, number 951, page 61",
"text": "I was also interested to hear that he is taking over the time-honoured Rail Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland, following Stuart Baker's death in November 2020.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp."
],
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[
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"To adopt a further responsibility or duty."
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{
"ref": "2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record",
"text": "McCoist unexpectedly ushered back a defender of his own with Kirk Broadfoot taking over from Steven Whittaker. There was, of course, another change, Kyle Bartley stepping in at centre-half to replace suspended Dorin Goian.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "My husband is taking over the accounts department during the holiday period, while the chief accountant is away.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "If you will take over driving, I'd like to get some sleep.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To relieve someone temporarily."
],
"links": [
[
"relieve",
"relieve"
],
[
"temporarily",
"temporarily"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70",
"text": "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "Acme Motors is to take Jetcar Industries over this week, if all goes as planned.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To buy out the ownership of a business."
],
"links": [
[
"buy out",
"buy out"
],
[
"ownership",
"ownership"
],
[
"business",
"business"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To appropriate something without permission."
],
"links": [
[
"appropriate",
"appropriate"
],
[
"permission",
"permission"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Ancient Rome took over lands throughout the known world.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To annex a territory by conquest or invasion."
],
"links": [
[
"annex",
"annex"
],
[
"territory",
"territory"
],
[
"conquest",
"conquest"
],
[
"invasion",
"invasion"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Buzz Lightyear has taken over Woody as the most popular children's toy.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Tiger Woods has taken over as the top golfer.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become more successful (than someone or something else)."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To become more successful (than someone or something else)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "to become more successful than",
"word": "overtake"
},
{
"sense": "to become more successful than",
"word": "surpass"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "oorneem"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "apoderar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiēguǎn",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "接管"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiēshǒu",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "接手"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "佔領"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhànlǐng",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "占领"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "overnemen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "ottaa haltuunsa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "reprendre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "übernehmen"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "taka við"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "usurpare"
},
{
"alt": "ひきうける",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hikiukeru",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "引き受ける"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "girtnedes",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "گرتنەدەس"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "overta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "tomar posse"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "controlar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bratʹ na sebjá",
"sense": "to assume control",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "брать на себя́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzjatʹ na sebjá",
"sense": "to assume control",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "взять на себя́"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "zmocniť sa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "ovládnuť"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "usurpar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "tomar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "apoderarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "enseñorearse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to assume control",
"word": "adueñarse"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "assumir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "ottaa haltuunsa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "assumer"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "asumir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "übernehmen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "assumere"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "overta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "assumir"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "prevziať"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to adopt a further responsibility",
"word": "asumir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "toimia sijaisena"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "remplacer"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "incaricare"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "overta"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "prevziať"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to relieve someone temporarily",
"word": "reemplazar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to buy out",
"word": "ostaa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to buy out",
"word": "acquisire"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to buy out",
"word": "overta"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to buy out",
"word": "kjøpe ut"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to buy out",
"word": "prevziať"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appropriate without permission",
"word": "vallata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appropriate without permission",
"word": "appropriarsi"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to appropriate without permission",
"word": "zmocniť sa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to appropriate without permission",
"word": "apropiar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "valloittaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "vallata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "impossessarsi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "annettere"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "ta over"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "annektere"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "ovládnuť"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "anexar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "anexionar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to annex a territory",
"word": "anexionarse"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "tulla joksikin"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "prendere il posto"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "overta"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "vystriedať"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to become more successful than someone or something else",
"word": "predstihnúť"
}
],
"word": "take over"
}
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