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"text": "I hear that John has taken up with Jane."
}
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"To form a close relationship with (someone)."
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"ref": "2001, Vincent Curcio, Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius, page 112",
"text": "It seems, then, that automobiles and automobiling were on Walter Chrysler's mind for a long time before he took up with this legendary Locomobile",
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"To become interested in (something)."
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"To begin living together with; to lodge with."
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"To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with"
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"(archaic) To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with"
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"text": "He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains."
},
{
"text": "He took up painting with his wife."
},
{
"text": "He took up the overpayment with his supplier."
}
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, up, take up, with."
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"ref": "2001, Vincent Curcio, Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius, page 112",
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"To become interested in (something)."
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"To begin living together with; to lodge with."
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"To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with"
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"(archaic) To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with"
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"text": "He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains."
},
{
"text": "He took up painting with his wife."
},
{
"text": "He took up the overpayment with his supplier."
}
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, up, take up, with."
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