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takes onverbpresent tense third-person singular of take on to enter into contest or conflict withwill take on his chief opponent in the next political debate battles, encounters, engages, faces, meets emulates, rivalscontends, fights, opposes eludes, escapes, evadesretreats to provide with a paying jobdecided to take her on as store manager assumes, employs, engages, fees(chiefly Scottish), hires, lays on(chiefly British), pays, places, recruits, retains, signs (up or on) reemploys, reengages, rehiresapprentices, contracts, jobs, partners, subcontractsenlistsadvances, promotes, upgradeskeeps (on)headhunts, scouts axes, cans, discharges, dismisses, fires, sacks furloughs, lays off, locks 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 adopts, borrows, embraces, espouses, takes up domesticates, naturalizesappropriates, arrogates, takes over, usurpsabsorbs, assimilates, incorporates, quotescherishes, prizes, treasurescultivates, follows, heeds, honorsuses, utilizesbrings up, fosters, nurtures, raises, rearsaffects, assumes, copies, imitates, pretends, puts on, simulates picks up on abandons, forsakes, gives up, relinquishes, surrendersabjures, abnegates, disownsrejects, renounces, repudiates, spurnsdiscards, jettisons, junks, throws away, throws out |