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Take on

verb

Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect. Synonyms: acquire, adopt, assume, take. "The story took a new turn" , "He adopted an air of superiority" , "She assumed strange manners" , "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"

Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities. Synonyms: adopt, assume, take over.

Accept as a challenge. Synonyms: tackle, undertake.

Admit into a group or community. Synonyms: accept, admit, take. "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"

Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle. Synonyms: encounter, meet, play. "Charlie likes to play Mary"

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"Take on" Quotes from Famous Books

... at least an equal number of cases, pass on into the productive or administrative end of business. The majority of girls are stenographers, or to a less extent, assistants in bookkeeping or clerical work. Boys' work may be expected to take on the characteristics of the business that employs them; girls' work remains in essentials unchanged even in totally changed surroundings. Boys' work within limits is progressive; girls' work in its general type—with individual exceptions—is static. Boys as a rule cannot stay at the same ...

— Wage Earning and Education • R. R. Lutz

... to take on a weary tone. Once in midsummer he wrote that it was still snowing up there in the hills, and added, "It always snows here I expect. If we strike it rich, I've lost my guess, that's all." And the final heartsick line, "Don't you suppose ...

— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... returned, the midshipman having represented that she answered the purpose of landing and embarking better than the larger boat from the particular circumstances of the landing place; and I stood over for the S.W. island to take on board the other yawl which had been sent to ground near the reef of that island and to procure from ...

— Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora - Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the - South Seas, 1790-1791 • Edward Edwards

... make me believe as furriners like them can do us half th' harm them ministers do with their bad government? If King George 'ud turn 'em all away and govern by himself, he'd see everything righted. He might take on Billy Pitt again if he liked; but I don't see myself what we want wi' anybody besides King and Parliament. It's that nest o' ministers does the mischief, ...

— Adam Bede • George Eliot

... problem why Likeman should suppose they had the slightest weight upon his side of their discussion. The more he thought the less they seemed to be on Likeman's side, until at last they began to take on a complexion entirely opposed to the old man's insidious arguments, until indeed they began to bear the extraordinary interpretation of ...

— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

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