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: (ambitransitive) 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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▸ 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: (ambitransitive) 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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