Usually means: Assume control of something completely.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. take over: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take over: Merriam-Webster
  3. take over, take over: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. take over: Collins English Dictionary
  5. take over: Vocabulary.com
  6. Take-Over, take-over: Wordnik
  7. take (sth) over: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. take over: Wiktionary
  9. take-over, take over: Dictionary.com
  10. Take Over (James Bond): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. take over: Rhymezone
  12. take over: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. take over: FreeDictionary.org
  14. take over: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. take-over, take over: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. take over: Legal dictionary
  2. take over: Financial dictionary

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

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

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

(Note: See take_overs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (take over)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
verb:  To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp.
verb:  To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
verb:  To relieve someone temporarily.
verb:  To buy out the ownership of a business.
verb:  To appropriate something without permission.
verb:  To annex a territory by conquest or invasion.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful (than someone or something else).

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