Usually means: Grasp and exploit an opportunity.
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  1. seize on: Merriam-Webster
  2. seize on: Vocabulary.com
  3. seize on: Dictionary.com
  4. seize on: Rhymezone
  5. seize on: FreeDictionary.org
  6. seize on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. seize on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. seize on: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seize on: Legal dictionary

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Seize on)

▸ verb:  Alternative form of seize upon [To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly.]

Similar:
take up, latch on, fasten on, hook on, seize upon, take hold, lay hold upon, lay hold on, seize, chance on, more...

Opposite:
release, let go, relinquish, surrender

Types:
pounce, snatch, grab, clutch, hijack, usurp, more...

Phrases:
to seize on, more...

Adjectives:
try, deal, put up, attack, nait, own, flip, to go, go, take-away, seizing

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Similar:
take up, latch on, fasten on, hook on, seize upon, take hold, lay hold upon, lay hold on, seize, chance on, more...

Opposite:
release, let go, relinquish, surrender

Types:
pounce, snatch, grab, clutch, hijack, usurp, more...

Phrases:
to seize on, more...

Adjectives:
try, deal, put up, attack, nait, own, flip, to go, go, take-away, seizing



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