"take the offensive" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "takes the offensive",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking the offensive",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took the offensive",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken the offensive",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> the offensive"
      },
      "expansion": "take the offensive (third-person singular simple present takes the offensive, present participle taking the offensive, simple past took the offensive, past participle taken the offensive)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_the_offensive-en-verb-HQu0oLwX",
      "links": [
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
        [
          "defend",
          "defend"
        ],
        [
          "bold",
          "bold"
        ],
        [
          "proactive",
          "proactive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "go on the offensive"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "perejtí v nastuplénije",
          "sense": "attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive",
          "word": "перейти́ в наступле́ние"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive",
          "word": "gå på offensiven"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take the offensive"
}

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    {
      "form": "takes the offensive",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking the offensive",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took the offensive",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken the offensive",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> the offensive"
      },
      "expansion": "take the offensive (third-person singular simple present takes the offensive, present participle taking the offensive, simple past took the offensive, past participle taken the offensive)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
        [
          "defend",
          "defend"
        ],
        [
          "bold",
          "bold"
        ],
        [
          "proactive",
          "proactive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "go on the offensive"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "perejtí v nastuplénije",
      "sense": "attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive",
      "word": "перейти́ в наступле́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "attack instead of defending; to be bold and proactive",
      "word": "gå på offensiven"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take the offensive"
}