Usually means: Assume responsibility, begin, or absorb.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. take-up, take up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. take-up, take up, take up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. take-up, take-up, take up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. take-up, take up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Take-up, take-up: Wordnik
  7. take-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. take-up: Wiktionary
  9. take up: Dictionary.com
  10. Take-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. take-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. take-up, take up: Rhymezone
  13. Take-up, take up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. take up: Phrasal Verb Page
  15. take-up, take up: Free Dictionary
  16. take up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. take-up, take up: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. take up: Wiktionary
  19. take-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  20. take-up: Dictionary.com
  21. take-up: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. take up: Legal dictionary
  3. take up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take-up, take up: Encyclopedia

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Take Up: Backgammon

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take up)

verb:  (transitive) To lift; to raise.
verb:  (transitive) To pick up.
verb:  (transitive) To remove (a ground or floor surface, including the bed of a road or the track of a railway).
verb:  (transitive) To absorb (a liquid), to soak up.
verb:  (transitive, sewing) To shorten (a garment), especially by hemming.
verb:  (transitive) To tighten or wind in (a rope, slack, etc.)
verb:  (transitive) To occupy; to consume (space or time).
verb:  (transitive) To take, to assume (one’s appointed or intended place).
verb:  (transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something).
verb:  (transitive) To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.
verb:  (transitive) To begin functioning in (a role or position), to assume (an office).
verb:  (transitive) To address or discuss (an issue).
verb:  (transitive) To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, with 'on') To accept (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.) from.
verb:  (transitive) To join in (saying something).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To resume, to return to something that was interrupted.
verb:  (transitive) To implement, to employ, to put into use.
verb:  (transitive, Canada) To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class.
verb:  (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To begin occupying and working (a plot of uncultivated land), to break in.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly British) To pay off, to clear (a debt, loan, mortgage, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To arrest (a person).
verb:  (transitive) To reprove or reproach (a person).
verb:  (transitive) To begin to support or patronize, to sponsor (a person), to adopt as protégé.
noun:  Alternative form of take-up [The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.]

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