Usually means: Defend or fight for passionately.
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  1. take up the cudgels: Merriam-Webster
  2. take up the cudgels: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take up the cudgels: Collins English Dictionary
  4. take up the cudgels: Wiktionary
  5. take up the cudgels: Dictionary.com
  6. take up the cudgels: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take up the cudgels: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take up the cudgels: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (take up the cudgels)

verb:  To engage in a contest.
verb:  (idiomatic, followed by on behalf of or for) to make a defence for someone or something; to intercede supportively.

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