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take onverb to enter into contest or conflict withwill take on his chief opponent in the next political debate battle, encounter, engage, face, meet emulate, rivalcontend, fight, oppose elude, escape, evaderetreat to provide with a paying jobdecided to take her on as store manager assume, employ, engage, fee(chiefly Scottish), hire, lay on(chiefly British), pay, place, recruit, retain, sign (up or on) reemploy, reengage, rehireapprentice, contract, job, partner, subcontractenlistadvance, promote, upgradekeep (on)headhunt, scout ax(or axe), can, discharge, dismiss, fire, sack furlough, lay off, lock out to take for one's own use (something originated by another)recently arrived immigrants who are eager to take on the language and culture of their adopted homeland adopt, borrow, embrace, espouse, take up domesticate, naturalizeappropriate, arrogate, take over, usurpabsorb, assimilate, incorporate, quotecherish, prize, treasurecultivate, follow, heed, honoruse, utilizebring up, foster, nurture, raise, rearaffect, assume, copy, imitate, pretend, put on, simulate pick up on abandon, forsake, give up, relinquish, surrenderabjure, abnegate, disownreject, renounce, repudiate, spurndiscard, jettison, junk, throw away, throw out in 1567 |