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taking onverbpresent participle of take on to enter into contest or conflict withwill take on his chief opponent in the next political debate battling, encountering, engaging, facing, meeting emulating, rivaling(or rivalling)contending, fighting, opposing eluding, escaping, evadingretreating to provide with a paying jobdecided to take her on as store manager assuming, employing, engaging, feeing(chiefly Scottish), hiring, laying on(chiefly British), paying, placing, recruiting, retaining, signing (up or on) reemploying(or re-employing), reengaging(or re-engaging), rehiringapprenticing, contracting, jobbing, partnering, subcontractingenlistingadvancing, promoting, upgradingkeeping (on)headhunting, scouting axing, canning, discharging, dismissing, firing, sacking furloughing, laying off, locking 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 adopting, borrowing, embracing, espousing, taking up domesticating, naturalizingappropriating, arrogating, taking over, usurpingabsorbing, assimilating, incorporating, quotingcherishing, prizing, treasuringcultivating, following, heeding, honoringusing, utilizingbringing up, fostering, nurturing, raising, rearingaffecting, assuming, copying, imitating, pretending, putting on, simulating picking up on abandoning, forsaking, giving up, relinquishing, surrenderingabjuring, abnegating, disowningrejecting, renouncing, repudiating, spurningdiscarding, jettisoning, junking, throwing away, throwing out |