take over

Verb

• take up, as of debts or payments
  • absorb the costs for something
    

• take up and practice as one's own

• do over
  • They would like to take it over again
    

• take over ownership of; of corporations and companies

• take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
  • I'll accept the charges
    
  • She agreed to bear the responsibility
    

• free someone temporarily from his or her obligations

• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
  • When will the new President assume office?
    

• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
  • He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town
    
  • he usurped my rights
    
  • She seized control of the throne after her husband died
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  absorb , adopt , borrow , take up , repeat , buy out , buy up , bear , accept , assume , relieve , take on , usurp , seize , arrogate