take over

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.

   “Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.”

2. fiil To adopt a further responsibility or duty.

   “He will take over the job permanently when the accountant retires.”

3. fiil To relieve someone temporarily.

   “My husband is taking over the accounts department during the holiday period, while the chief accountant is away.”

4. fiil To buy out the ownership of a business.

   “Acme Motors is to take Jetcar Industries over this week, if all goes as planned.”

5. fiil To appropriate something without permission.
6. fiil To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.

   “Ancient Rome took over lands throughout the known world.”

7. fiil To become more successful than (someone or something else).

   “Buzz Lightyear has taken over Woody as the most popular children's toy.”

8. fiil Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.

   “He took the car over to the garage.”