Usually means: Occur at a specific location.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word take place:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. take place: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take place: Merriam-Webster
  3. take place: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. take place: Collins English Dictionary
  5. take place: Vocabulary.com
  6. take place: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. take place: Wiktionary
  8. take place: Dictionary.com
  9. take place: Rhymezone
  10. take place: FreeDictionary.org
  11. take place: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. take place: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. take place: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. take place: Legal dictionary
  3. take place: Financial dictionary

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take place)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To happen or to occur.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To take precedence or priority.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To take effect; to prevail.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To sit in a particular location, take one's place.

Similar:
happen, occur, come about, go on, pass off, pass, hap, come to pass, event, proceed, more...

Opposite:
not occur, not happen, fail to happen, be cancelled, be postponed

Types:
occur, happen, transpire, more...

Phrases:
take the place of, to take place, to take the place of, take one's place, take ones place, more...

Adjectives:
deliver, deal, be, greet, apply, in, go, contract, coming, takeaway, go-ahead

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Similar:
happen, occur, come about, go on, pass off, pass, hap, come to pass, event, proceed, more...

Opposite:
not occur, not happen, fail to happen, be cancelled, be postponed

Types:
occur, happen, transpire, more...

Phrases:
take the place of, to take place, to take the place of, take one's place, take ones place, take your place, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, take place after, more...

Adjectives:
deliver, deal, be, greet, apply, in, go, contract, coming, takeaway, go-ahead



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