Usually means: Assume responsibility, role, or challenge.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. take on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take on: Merriam-Webster
  3. take on: Collins English Dictionary
  4. take on: Vocabulary.com
  5. take-on: Wordnik
  6. take on: Wiktionary
  7. take on: Dictionary.com
  8. take on: Rhymezone
  9. take on: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. take on: FreeDictionary.org
  11. take on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. take on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. take on: Legal dictionary
  2. take on: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take on: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take on: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take on: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. take on: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. take on: Urban Dictionary
  3. Take on: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take on)

▸ verb:  To acquire, bring in, or introduce.
▸ verb:  To obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To begin to have or exhibit.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility for.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To attempt to fight, compete with, or engage with.
▸ verb:  (soccer) To (attempt to) dribble round (an opposition player).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To catch on, do well; to become popular.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To grieve or be concerned (about something or someone).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, UK, military) To enlist into military service.

Similar:
take, undertake, acquire, encounter, meet, admit, accept, play, assume, take over, more...

Opposite:
give up, relinquish, surrender, abandon

Types:
perspective, view, angle, slant, point of view, more...

Phrases:
take it on the chin, take up on, take on board, take out on, take it on, more...

Adjectives:
taking, go, like, apply, nait, takeaway, own, be, take-away, deal, seizing

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Similar:
take, undertake, acquire, encounter, meet, admit, accept, play, assume, take over, more...

Opposite:
give up, relinquish, surrender, abandon

Types:
perspective, view, angle, slant, point of view, more...

Phrases:
take it on the chin, take up on, take on board, take out on, take it on, take on one side, to take on, take it out on, take pity on, take something on board, take it on the lam, take on faith, more...

Adjectives:
taking, go, like, apply, nait, takeaway, own, be, take-away, deal, seizing

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     orange, more...



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