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"tags": [
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"ref": "2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74",
"text": "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.",
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"word": "take up for"
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"ref": "1865 November 26, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (fiction)",
"text": "Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To lift; to raise.",
"To pick up."
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"(transitive) To lift; to raise.",
"(transitive) To pick up."
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"word": "take one up"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "analambánō",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "ἀναλαμβάνω"
},
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"_dis1": "59 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 9",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "felvesz"
},
{
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"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "tóg suas"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "sollevare"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "prendere"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "podnimatʹ",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "поднимать"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidnimáty",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "підніма́ти"
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"text": "We're going to have to take up the floorboards.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1876, Supreme Court of Iowa, June Term 1876 court record, “The Davenport Central Railway Co. v. The Davenport Gas Light Co., Appeal from Scott Circuit Court”, published in The American Railway Reports, Volume 14",
"text": "It is hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed that a temporary writ of injunction issue, enjoining said defendant and all persons acting under or for it, from in any manner taking up, disturbing or interfering with the road-bed and track of said plaintiff so as to prevent the passage of cars thereon"
},
{
"ref": "1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52",
"text": "Passenger traffic was subsequently discontinued, and early in the recent war a considerable amount of the permanent way at the Treforest end of the railway was taken up.",
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"To lift; to raise.",
"To remove (a ground or floor surface, including the bed of a road or the track of a railway)."
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[
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[
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[
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[
"road",
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"track",
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[
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"(transitive) To lift; to raise.",
"(transitive) To remove (a ground or floor surface, including the bed of a road or the track of a railway)."
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"transitive"
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"To lift; to raise.",
"To absorb (a liquid), to soak up."
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"(transitive) To lift; to raise.",
"(transitive) To absorb (a liquid), to soak up."
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"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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{
"text": "If we take up the sleeves a bit, that shirt will look much better on you.",
"type": "example"
}
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"To lift; to raise.",
"To shorten (a garment), especially by hemming."
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"shorten",
"shorten"
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[
"garment",
"garment"
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[
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"hem"
]
],
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"(transitive) To lift; to raise.",
"(transitive, sewing) To shorten (a garment), especially by hemming."
],
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"word": "take in"
}
],
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"transitive"
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"manufacturing",
"sewing",
"textiles"
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"_dis1": "6 2 2 44 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 5 5 2 1 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "bevesz"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 2 2 44 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 5 5 2 1 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "accorciare"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 2 2 44 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 5 5 2 1 2",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "coger a"
},
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"_dis1": "6 2 2 44 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 5 5 2 1 2",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "agarrar a"
},
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"_dis1": "6 2 2 44 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 5 5 2 1 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "lägga upp"
}
]
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{
"text": "The reel automatically took up the slack.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To lift; to raise.",
"To tighten or wind in (a rope, slack, etc.)"
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[
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[
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],
[
"rope",
"rope"
],
[
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]
],
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"(transitive) To lift; to raise.",
"(transitive) To tighten or wind in (a rope, slack, etc.)"
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"word": "take in"
}
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{
"text": "The books on finance take up three shelves.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "All my time is taken up with looking after the kids.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To occupy; to consume (space or time)."
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[
"consume",
"consume"
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"space",
"space"
],
[
"time",
"time"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To occupy; to consume (space or time)."
],
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"transitive"
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"_dis1": "3 1 4 1 1 68 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 2 2 0 1 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "fylde"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 4 1 1 68 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 2 2 0 1 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "foglal"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 4 1 1 68 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 2 2 0 1 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "elfoglal"
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{
"_dis1": "3 1 4 1 1 68 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 2 2 0 1 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "leköt"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 4 1 1 68 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 2 2 0 1 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "kitölt"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 4 1 1 68 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 2 2 0 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "occupare"
},
{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "ocupar"
}
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{
"text": "She took up her post at the foot of the stairs.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To take, to assume (one’s appointed or intended place)."
],
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],
[
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"(transitive) To take, to assume (one’s appointed or intended place)."
],
"tags": [
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{
"text": "I’ve taken up knitting.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I wish to take up mathematics.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Jane Powell, Linda Svendsen, Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home, page 44",
"text": "Each of the things he took up, he took up with passion and intensity",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis."
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[
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"deal with"
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[
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[
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[
"regular",
"regular"
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[
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive) To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
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"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "paneutua"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "elkezd"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "belekezd"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "hozzákezd"
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"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "nekilát"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "nekifog"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "hozzáfog"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "tóg suas"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "dedicarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "iniciarse en"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "dedicarse a"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 1 0 0 53 6 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 7 2 1 0 7 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "brátysja",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "бра́тися"
}
]
},
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{
"text": "He took up his post as assistant director last Friday.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To begin functioning in (a role or position), to assume (an office)."
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[
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[
"role",
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[
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[
"assume",
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[
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],
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive) To begin functioning in (a role or position), to assume (an office)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Let’s take this up with the manager.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To address or discuss (an issue)."
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive) To address or discuss (an issue)."
],
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"tags": [
"transitive"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "megbeszél"
},
{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "egyeztet"
},
{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "felvet"
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{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "szóba hoz"
},
{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "rivolgersi"
},
{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "aceptar"
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{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "participar"
}
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{
"ref": "1993 December 12, Jim Sheridan, Terry George, In the Name of the Father, spoken by Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Universal Pictures",
"text": "I never said thank you for taking up our case.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.)."
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[
"adopt",
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[
"proposal",
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[
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[
"request",
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[
"cause",
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[
"challenge",
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],
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive) To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
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},
{
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{
"text": "Shall we take them up on their offer to help us move?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To accept (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.) from."
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[
"offer",
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"To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis."
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"(transitive) To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis."
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"text": "He took up his post as assistant director last Friday.",
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive) To begin functioning in (a role or position), to assume (an office)."
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"text": "Let’s take this up with the manager.",
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"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To address or discuss (an issue)."
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[
"issue",
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
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"English transitive verbs"
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"ref": "1993 December 12, Jim Sheridan, Terry George, In the Name of the Father, spoken by Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Universal Pictures",
"text": "I never said thank you for taking up our case.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.)."
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"set about"
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[
"dealing with",
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[
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[
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[
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[
"request",
"request"
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[
"cause",
"cause"
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[
"challenge",
"challenge"
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive) To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.)."
],
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"transitive"
]
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"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Shall we take them up on their offer to help us move?",
"type": "example"
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"glosses": [
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"To accept (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.) from."
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[
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[
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"cause"
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[
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"challenge"
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive, with 'on') To accept (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.) from."
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"transitive"
]
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"English transitive verbs"
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"text": "They took up the cry of their oppressed compatriots.",
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"glosses": [
"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To join in (saying something)."
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"set about"
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[
"dealing with",
"deal with"
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"join",
"join"
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive) To join in (saying something)."
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},
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"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
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"text": "Let’s take up where we left off.",
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"glosses": [
"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To resume, to return to something that was interrupted."
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"set about",
"set about"
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"dealing with",
"deal with"
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"transitive",
"transitive"
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[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
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[
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"resume"
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[
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"return"
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[
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"interrupt"
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
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"transitive"
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"English transitive verbs"
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"ref": "2008 April 23, Iolo ap Dafydd, “Wood homes ‘solution’ to shortage”, in BBC News",
"text": "So I’d imagine if they were to take up this system, or a similar system, we should be able to build quicker.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"glosses": [
"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To implement, to employ, to put into use."
],
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[
"set about",
"set about"
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[
"dealing with",
"deal with"
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[
"implement",
"implement"
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[
"employ",
"employ"
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[
"put",
"put"
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[
"use",
"use"
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"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive) To implement, to employ, to put into use."
],
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"transitive"
]
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"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
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"text": "You have 30 minutes for the quiz. We’ll take up the answers at 1 o'clock.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Mr. Bawa, Mr. Bawa's Semester 1 Classes at St. Mary's",
"text": "Also, the grade 12’s in the class were also called down to the cafeteria from 9:30 am to about 9:50 am, so they missed class when I took up some of the worksheets.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, /u/CharmingHistorian3, Mustafa's C37 midterm solution?",
"text": "Can someone in CSCC37 (mustafa's tutorial!) email me the solution to the midterm? (the tutorial right after the midterm where he took up the solutions)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class."
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"set about"
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"dealing with",
"deal with"
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"review",
"review"
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[
"solution",
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[
"test",
"test"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive, Canada) To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class."
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English transitive verbs",
"New Zealand English"
],
"glosses": [
"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To begin occupying and working (a plot of uncultivated land), to break in."
],
"links": [
[
"set about",
"set about"
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[
"dealing with",
"deal with"
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[
"occupy",
"occupy"
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[
"work",
"work"
],
[
"plot",
"plot"
],
[
"uncultivated",
"uncultivated"
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[
"land",
"land"
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[
"break in",
"break in"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To begin occupying and working (a plot of uncultivated land), to break in."
],
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"Australia",
"New-Zealand",
"transitive"
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},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"To pay off, to clear (a debt, loan, mortgage, etc.)."
],
"links": [
[
"set about",
"set about"
],
[
"dealing with",
"deal with"
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[
"pay off",
"pay off"
],
[
"clear",
"clear"
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[
"debt",
"debt"
],
[
"loan",
"loan"
],
[
"mortgage",
"mortgage"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).",
"(transitive, chiefly British) To pay off, to clear (a debt, loan, mortgage, etc.)."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The police took up the suspect.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To arrest (a person)."
],
"links": [
[
"arrest",
"arrest"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, archaic) To arrest (a person)."
],
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{
"word": "take in"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1856, John Byrom, Richard Parkinson, Francis Robert Raines, The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom, page 114",
"text": "[…] he talked strangely of Mr. Law […] wearing a pair of stockings that a ploughman would not have picked off a dunghill; upon which last expression I took him up for saying that Mr. Law carried his expression beyond truth, when he himself exposed what he thought wrong with so much vivacity, and Dr. Hartley said that he thought there I had him; […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To reprove or reproach (a person)."
],
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[
"reprove",
"reprove"
],
[
"reproach",
"reproach"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To reprove or reproach (a person)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To begin to support or patronize, to sponsor (a person), to adopt as protégé."
],
"links": [
[
"support",
"support"
],
[
"patronize",
"patronize"
],
[
"sponsor",
"sponsor"
],
[
"adopt",
"adopt"
],
[
"protégé",
"protégé"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To begin to support or patronize, to sponsor (a person), to adopt as protégé."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2023, “3D (song)”, performed by Jungkook ft. Jack Harlow",
"text": "I used to take girls up to Stony Brook and steal their hearts like some crook, true story",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To seduce (a person); to rizz up."
],
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[
"seduce",
"seduce"
],
[
"rizz up",
"rizz up"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang) To seduce (a person); to rizz up."
],
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"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-take_up.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-take_up.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-take_up.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-take_up.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
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}
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "take one up"
}
],
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{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "analambánō",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "ἀναλαμβάνω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "felvesz"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "tóg suas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "sollevare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "prendere"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podnimatʹ",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "поднимать"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidnimáty",
"sense": "to pick up",
"word": "підніма́ти"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "bevesz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "accorciare"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "coger a"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "agarrar a"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to shorten by hemming",
"word": "lägga upp"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "fylde"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "foglal"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "elfoglal"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "leköt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "kitölt"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "occupare"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to occupy, to consume (space or time)",
"word": "ocupar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "paneutua"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "elkezd"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "belekezd"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "hozzákezd"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "nekilát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "nekifog"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "hozzáfog"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "tóg suas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "dedicarsi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "iniciarse en"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "dedicarse a"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "brátysja",
"sense": "to begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis",
"word": "бра́тися"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "megbeszél"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "egyeztet"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "felvet"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "szóba hoz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "rivolgersi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "aceptar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to address (an issue)",
"word": "participar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from",
"word": "elfogad"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from",
"word": "accettare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prinjátʹ",
"sense": "to accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "приня́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from",
"word": "aceptar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to resume",
"word": "folytat"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to resume",
"word": "riprendere"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to resume",
"word": "comenzar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to resume",
"word": "empezar"
}
],
"word": "take up"
}
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