Take Over

Definitions: Take Over

Take Over

Verb

1. Take control of; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died".

2. Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?".

3. Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations.

4. Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility".

5. Take over ownership of; of corporations and companies.

6. Do over; "They would like to take it over again".

7. Take up and practice as one's own.

8. Take possession of without permission or take with force, as after a conquest or invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle".

9. Take up, as of debts or payments; "absorb the costs for something".

10. : take by conquest; as of territory.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Take Over

Crosswords: Take Over

That'll take a little more planning. But it doesn't matter. Our assignment is to knock out the nuclear-weapons plant at Falafel Heights. The plant goes on line in 12 hours and is heavily defended. Now, if you have trouble hitting your objective, you secondary targets are here and here: an accordion factory and a mime school. Good luck, gentlemen. Blink, take over. Oh, there's one more thing. (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

Anyone could take over the place with the right set of mammary glands. (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

I've already had someone created in my image. He's evil, he wants to take over the world, and he fits easily into most overhead storage bins. (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

You didn't have to try and take over the whole world and destroy humanity. (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera)

I'll build a private army of super-apes and take over Cleveland! (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini)

Don't let your pain take over you ("New Sensation"; performing artist: INXS)

And take over the town with a ruthless team ("Put Ya Hands Up"; performing artist: KISS)

When the Girls Take Over (1962)

Rangers Take Over (1942)

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Books

• The Girls Take over (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Ovide & The Gang:Will Cy Take Over (reference)

• Will Cy Take Over Paradise (reference)

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Music

• Take Over (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Contour map of Gulf of Mexico as sounded by the BLAKE Used Sigsbee Sounding Machine to take over 3,000 soundings in a year First realistic bathymetric map of any ocean basin.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The machine that will take over the functions of the patient's heart and lungs during the operation ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Paul Almasy..

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Within the same period and as prescribed by the Commission, the Polish Government must proceed to take over the administration of the territory to the south of the line. (reference)

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Health

Called left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), the machines take over part or virtually all of the heart's blood-pumping activity. (references)

Due to the brain's great ability to learn and change (called brain plasticity), other areas can adapt to take over some of the lost functions. (references)

The compulsion to use drugs can take over the individual's life. Addiction often involves not only compulsive drug taking but also a wide range of dysfunctional behaviors that can interfere with normal functioning in the family, the workplace, and the broader community. (references)

Business

By 2000, the sedan is predicted to take over first place. (references)

But experts believe that the larger German and international companies will take over smaller domestic companies. (references)

If BMA staff can operate the plant successfully, the BMA will continue take over operations of the various plants. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

TV-6 had hired a number of NTV journalists who had quit NTV to protest Gazprom's take over. (references)

Cameroon

The UNHCR ceased operations in the country on December 31; the UNHCR office in Gabon will take over responsibility for refugees. (references)

Niger

It is unclear whether the Government's interministerial National Refugee Eligibility Committee will have the capacity to take over the UNHCR's refugee prescreening duties. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

The approval process to take over a "sick" firm may take as long as two months. (references)

Poland

A recent example was Deutsche Bank's failed attempt to take over BIG Bank Gdanski in 2000. (references)

Argentina

This includes the creation of a civilian agency to take over civil aviation responsibilities from the Air Force. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

Hours later, either the same or other gunmen attempted to take over police stations in the Central Plateau towns of Mirebalais, Hinche, and Belladere; another policeman was killed. (references)

Oman

The magistrate court system was established by royal decree in 1984 to take over all criminal cases from the Shari'a courts; it is not independent, and its president reports directly to the Sultan. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Missing Persons Institute (MPI), a state institution opened in August 2000, continued to prepare to eventually take over responsibility from the ICMP for recovering and identifying human remains and supporting families of the missing. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Two state-owned firms will be created to take over the services activities of the Ministry; each will compete with private sector firms. (references)

East Timor

The ETDF gradually is to take over responsibilities from the UN-PKF once they have completed their training and gained some experience in the field. (references)

Sudan

However, the Government was trying to take over the unused part of a Christian cemetery in Khartoum in order to build shops; the dispute remained unresolved at year's end. (references)

Trade

Botswana

The other members are demanding that a secretariat with an elected president take over SARS' functions. (references)

Mexico

This change should make it easier for creditors to take over the loan collateral pledged by Mexican firms. (references)

Slovak Rep

Foreign banks must agree to take over the assets and liabilities, if the Slovak branch experiences financial problems, effectively guaranteeing the financial health of the branch. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

In March a trial court's 3-judge panel unanimously convicted 22 individuals (among them most of the leaders of the vigilante action) on charges of coercion and illegal detention for the October 1999 take over of a SITRABI banana workers union hall. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "take over": take over from ♦ take over from smb. ♦ take over tax ♦ To take over. Additional references.

Afrikaan

koop (buy, buying, purchase, take, to buy), aanskaf (buy, purchase, take), aankoop (acquisition, buy, purchase, take, taking, taking over). (various references)

Albanian

transportoj matanë lumi, vij në pushtet, pushtim (capture, conquest, invasion, jaw, mastership, seizing, seizure, taking), marr pushtetin, marr me dorëzim, gllabërim (drink, drop, gulp, mouthful, sip, swallow, swallowing up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تولى الامر, ‏تبنى (adopt, embrace, espousal, espouse, foster, take on), ‏ساد (dominate, plosive, prevail, reign, rule), ‏إستولى على السلطة, ‏إضطلع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

развеждам (divorce, show around, show over, show round, take about, take around, walk), вземане под управление, вземам връх (get the better of), откарвам (drive, drive away, roll away, take), завеждам (be head, bring, conduct, induct, initiate, land, run, superintend, take), завладявам (carry, conquer, devour, engage, engross, force, invade, obsess, overcome, overreach, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, seize, take possession of), заемам (advance, borrow, fill, hold, lend, loan, occupy, take up), прекарвам (convey, have, lead, pass, pass away, pilot, reside, run, spend, spin out, wheel), поглъщане (absorption, adsorption, immersion, intake, intussusception), поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take down, take in, whelm), поемам ръководство, поемам от някого, изземвам (distrain, distress, expropriate, impress, recapture). (various references)

Catalan

comprar (buy, purchase, to buy). (various references)

Chinese 

接管 (assume control), 接替 (replace). (various references)

Czech

převzetí (assumption, resumption, taking), převzít (assume, take, take up, undertake). (various references)

Danish

købe (buy, purchase, repurchase). (various references)

Dutch

overnemen (buy, override, purchase), kopen (acquire, buy, buying, purchase, to buy), inkopen (buy, purchase, purchases), afnemen (abate, abstract, buy, clear away, decline, decrease, diminish, drop, equalize, fall, flatten, purchase, remove the cloth, settle, smooth, subside, take away, wane), aanschaffen (buy, get, procure, purchase), aankopen (acquire, buy, purchase). (various references)

Faeroese

keypa (buy, purchase). (various references)

Finnish

ostaa (buy, purchase, to buy). (various references)

French

s'emparer de, s'emparer, se charger de (take care, take charge, take on), ratisser, régner, prendre le pouvoir, prendre la relève, prendre (take, take in, take up, taking, to take, to take root), occuper (take), adopter (take up), acquérir, acheter (take, take up). (various references)

Frisian

oantuge (buy, get, procure, purchase), oanriede (advise, buy, counsel, get, procure, purchase), oankeapje (buy, purchase), oanhannelje (buy, purchase). (various references)

German

sich kaufen (buy, purchase), sich breitmachen (plant oneself), kaufen (bribe, buy, buy off, buy over, buying, cash, fix, purchase, purchasing, shop, take, to buy, to cash), einkaufen (buy, buy in, going shopping, purchase, shop, shopping, to purchase, to shop), die macht ergreifen, die leitung übernehmen, an die regierung kommen, an die macht kommen (to come into power), übernehmen (accept, adopt, assume, borrow, buy, defray, derive, take, take on, to adopt, to take on, to take over, to underwrite, undertake, undertaken). (various references)

Greek 

αναλαμβάνω (commit oneself, contract, resume, shoulder, take on, take up, undertake). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקחת לי�"ו (get a grip on), לקבל לי�"יו, ל�"תחיל ל� �"ל, שליט�" (ascendancy, authority, command, control, disposal, disposition, dominance, domination, dominion, mastery, predominance, predomination, proficiency), קבלת �"פקו�". (various references)

Hungarian

vesz (bought, buy, get, lay hold of, oppress, pick up, press, purchase, squeeze, take, taken, to buy, to commune, to fence, to gibe, to list, to nick, to put in an appearance, to re-enter, to scorn, to take, to wed, took), vásárol (bought, buy, got, purchase, to buy, to cope, to get), átvisz (carry forward, take across, to carry forward, to carry over, to get over, to put over, to take over, to transfer, to transfuse, to transmit, transfer), átvesz (receive, to be in receipt of, to receive, to take from, to take over), átvétel (borrowing, receipt, receiving, reception, takeover), átvállalás (takeover), átvállal (to take over). (various references)

Icelandic

kaupa (buy, purchase). (various references)

Indonesian

mengambil (assume, take), memborong (buy wholesale, cumulate), ambil alih. (various references)

Irish

ceannaigh (acquire, buy, purchase). (various references)

Italian

rilievo (cleat, emphasis, height, high ground, importance, parts stopped out, physical relief, projection, relief, remark, rubbing, survey, tread bar, tyre tread), rilevare (disclose, notice, observe, redeem, relieve, sense, survey, take, take a bearing of, take the place of), rilevamento (acquisition, bearing, capture, survey), comprare (acquire, bribe, buy, corrupt, market, purchase, take, to buy), comperare (acquire, buy, purchase, shopping, take), assunzione di direzione, acquisizione (acquisition). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

譲り受ける (to inherit, to receive, to take over by transfer), 受け継ぐ (to inherit, to succeed, to take over), 引継ぐ (to hand over, to take over), 引き継ぐ (to hand over, to take over), 引き取る (to retire to a private place, to take charge of, to take over), 引き受ける (to be responsible for, to contract, to guarantee, to take over, to take up, to undertake), 引受る (to be responsible for, to contract, to guarantee, to take over, to take up, to undertake), 引取る (to retire to a private place, to take charge of, to take over), 引受ける (to be responsible for, to contract, to guarantee, to take over, to take up, to undertake). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひきうける (to be responsible for, to contract, to guarantee, to take over, to take up, to undertake), ひきつぐ (to hand over, to take over), ひきとる (to retire to a private place, to take charge of, to take over), うけつぐ (to inherit, to succeed, to take over), ゆずりうける (to inherit, to receive, to take over by transfer). (various references)

Manx

goaill harrish. (various references)

Norwegian

kjøpe (buy, purchase, to buy, to purchase). (various references)

Papiamen

kumpra (acquire, buy, purchase). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay overay.(various references)

Polish

kupić. (various references)

Portuguese

comprar (acquire, buy, deal, get a beating, go shopping, purchase, to buy), assumir o controle (assume control). (various references)

Romanian

trece pe cineva dincolo de un râu, cumpåra (buy, purchase). (various references)

Russian 

купить (acquire, buy, purchase), вступать во владение, вступление во владение, захват (caption, capture, catch, dog, grab, grapnel, grip, hold, hug, jaw, lockout, seizure, taking), принимать должность, принимать (accept, accepted, adopt, assume, embrace, incorporate, pass, receive, receive a visit, take in, take on, take up), покупать (acquire, bought, buy, get, purchase), переворот (overturn, upheaval), перенимать (adopt). (various references)

Scottish

ceannaich (buy, purchase). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

primiti (accept, admit, receive, take, take it into, take on, welcome), preuzimanje vlasti, preuzeti (co opt), preovladati (overcome). (various references)

Spanish

comprar (acquire, buy, buy up, buying, get, go in for, invest in, lay in, pick up, purchase, to buy), procurarse (achieve, acquire, attain, buy, get, obtain, procure, purchase). (various references)

Sranan

bay (buy, purchase). (various references)

Swahili

nunua (buy, purchase). (various references)

Swedish

axla (put on), överta. (various references)

Tagalog

bumilí (buy, purchase), bilhin (buy, purchase). (various references)

Turkish

yönetimini almak, satin almak (buy, purchase), ele geçirme (capture, interception, seizure, taking), devralmak (absorb), devralma, devir (age, alienation, assignation, assignment, cession, circle, circulation, circumvolution, currency, cycle, disposal, epoch, era, Eyre, grant, gyration, period, release, Rev, revolution, rotation, rounder, spin, transfer, transference, turnover), almak (accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, admit, assume, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, come in, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pick up, pull off, purchase, put on, receive, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take in, take on, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak), üstlenmek (accept, assume, be stuck with, bear, stand, support, take on, take upon oneself, undertake, volunteer), ön plâna çıkmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

зміна (alteration, alternation, casting, change, mutation, relay, revolution, shift, spell, turnover, variance), приймати (accept, adopt, assume, embrace, initiate, receive, take in, take on, tidy), придбання контрольного пакета акцій, переворот (catastrophe, overturn, revolution, upheaval), перевозити (bear, carry, carry over, convey, put across, ship, tote, transport), доставляти (bring, bring round, deliver, supply). (various references)

Yucatec

manik (buy, purchase). (various references)

Zulu

-thenga (buy, purchase). (various references)

occupare. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overtake, takeover.

-1 letter: overate, overeat.

-2 letters: evoker, retake, revoke, revote, vetoer.

-3 letters: arete, avert, eater, evert, evoke, korat, oater, orate, ovate, overt, rakee, reave, revet, taker, tarok, toker, trave, troak, troke, trove, voter.

-4 letters: aero, akee, arvo, aver, eave, ever, kart, keet, keto, kore, okra, over, rake, rate, rato, rave, reek, rete, rota, rote, rove, take, tare, taro, teak, tear, toea, toke, tora, tore, tree, trek, veer, vera, vert, veto, vote.

-5 letters: are, ark, art, ate, ave, avo, ear, eat, eke, era, ere, eta, eve, kae, kat, kea, koa, kor, oak, oar, oat, oka, oke, ora, ore, ort, ova, rat, ree, ret, rev, roe, rot, tae, tao, tar, tav, tea, tee, toe, tor, var, vat, vee, vet, voe.

+1 letter: overtaken, overtakes, takeovers.

+2 letters: overtalked, overtasked.

+4 letters: antitakeover.

+5 letters: overtalkative.

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