"take under" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes under",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking under",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took under",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken under",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> under"
      },
      "expansion": "take under (third-person singular simple present takes under, present participle taking under, simple past took under, past participle taken under)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"under\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Meka James, Heat of Love:",
          "text": "I knew she didn’t have to be here, out in the sun with me trying to do whatever I could to keep this fire from taking the business under, but she was",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Carole and David Schwinn, The Transformative Workplace:",
          "text": "The costs associated with Patagonia's shift to organic material nearly took the company under, but given the company values, it almost had no choice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Faiz Siddiqui, “The First Black Students Admitted to 15 Prestigious U.S. Universities, and Their Stories”, in Complex.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-24:",
          "text": "It's believed that the Great Depression then took the business under.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_under-en-verb-UopTsyS4",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, of a business) To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a business"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "take-under"
        },
        {
          "word": "undertake"
        },
        {
          "word": "undertaker"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take under"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes under",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking under",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took under",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken under",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> under"
      },
      "expansion": "take under (third-person singular simple present takes under, present participle taking under, simple past took under, past participle taken under)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "take-under"
    },
    {
      "word": "undertake"
    },
    {
      "word": "undertaker"
    }
  ],
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        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"under\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Meka James, Heat of Love:",
          "text": "I knew she didn’t have to be here, out in the sun with me trying to do whatever I could to keep this fire from taking the business under, but she was",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Carole and David Schwinn, The Transformative Workplace:",
          "text": "The costs associated with Patagonia's shift to organic material nearly took the company under, but given the company values, it almost had no choice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Faiz Siddiqui, “The First Black Students Admitted to 15 Prestigious U.S. Universities, and Their Stories”, in Complex.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-24:",
          "text": "It's believed that the Great Depression then took the business under.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, of a business) To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a business"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take under"
}