Usually means: Approach to take control or possession.
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  1. move in on: Merriam-Webster
  2. move in on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. move in on: Vocabulary.com
  4. move in on: Wiktionary
  5. move in on: Dictionary.com
  6. move in on: Rhymezone
  7. move in on: FreeDictionary.org
  8. move in on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. move in on: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. move in on: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (move in on)

verb:  (transitive) To come closer to, as if to catch or hunt.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To encroach or prepare to take over (a thing, relationship, task or place that is or was somebody else's).

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