# take over

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
2. To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
3. To relieve someone temporarily.
4. To buy out the ownership of a business.
5. To appropriate something without permission.
6. To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
7. To become more successful than (someone or something else).
8. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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