Usually means: Establish firmly; begin to grow.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. take root: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take root: Merriam-Webster
  3. take root: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. take root: Vocabulary.com
  5. take root: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. take root: Wiktionary
  7. take root: Dictionary.com
  8. take root: Rhymezone
  9. take root: FreeDictionary.org
  10. take root: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. take root: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take root: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take root)

verb:  (intransitive, literally) To grow roots into soil.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold.

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