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took onverbpast tense of take on to enter into contest or conflict withwill take on his chief opponent in the next political debate battled, encountered, engaged, faced, met emulated, rivaled(or rivalled)contended, fought, opposed eluded, escaped, evadedretreated to provide with a paying jobdecided to take her on as store manager assumed, employed, engaged, feed(chiefly Scottish), hired, laid on(chiefly British), paid, placed, recruited, retained, signed (up or on) reemployed(or re-employed), reengaged(or re-engaged), rehiredapprenticed, contracted, jobbed, partnered, subcontractedenlistedadvanced, promoted, upgradedkept (on)headhunted, scouted axed, canned, discharged, dismissed, fired, sacked furloughed, laid off, locked 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 adopted, borrowed, embraced, espoused, took up domesticated, naturalizedappropriated, arrogated, took over, usurpedabsorbed, assimilated, incorporated, quotedcherished, prized, treasuredcultivated, followed, heeded, honoredused, utilizedbrought up, fostered, nurtured, raised, rearedaffected, assumed, copied, imitated, pretended, put on, simulated picked up on abandoned, forsook, gave up, relinquished, surrenderedabjured, abnegated, disownedrejected, renounced, repudiated, spurneddiscarded, jettisoned, junked, threw away, threw out |