Usually means: Compensate for lack or deficiency.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. take up the slack: Merriam-Webster
  2. take up the slack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take up the slack: Wiktionary
  4. take up the slack: Dictionary.com
  5. take up the slack: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take up the slack: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take up the slack: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take up the slack: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take up the slack: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (take up the slack)

verb:  To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
verb:  To do work that would otherwise be left undone.
verb:  To provide extra resources that are not met by normal sources.
verb:  (mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
verb:  To consume something that would otherwise go to waste.

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