Synonym: accept, acquire, admit, adopt, assume, encounter, meet, play, tackle, take, take over, undertake. Similar words: take out, take off, take over, make out, shake off, make over, for the sake of, take. Meaning: v. 1. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 2. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities 3. accept as a challenge 4. admit into a group or community 5. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle.
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91. If you are a good competitor, you take on all comers.
92. Other female psychologists conform to Laws's description of women in academia who take on male-associated traits to mask their gender.
93. There's a limit on how much luggage you can take on a plane, but there are ways to beat the system.
94. Dragons, a game requiring several players who take on fantasy personas with various attributes that determine their success in assorted quests.
95. But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges.
96. At first, he appeared to have no immediate plans to take on the armed forces.
97. Four pilot Workstart schemes will be started, offering financial assistance to employers who take on people who have been long-term unemployed.
98. What has forced airline staff to take on this policing role of checking the travel documents of would-be asylum seekers?
99. Its members take on the characteristics of mechanical cogs, performing their prescribed chores until they are worn out and replaced.
100. For Joshua, at sixty-two, and suffering from a bad leg, distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance.
101. Meanwhile, the Montana state government seems unlikely to take on the call for translocation and a reduced cull.
102. Although recently the Association has been enabled to take on some 250 full-time archaeologists, there is still an acute shortage.
103. That they are prepared to take on board such a past, one must hold in awe.
104. Let somebody else take on Johnny and his bloody war, she thought viciously.
105. Although activists take on global economic and political issues, their affiliations, allegiances and loyalties are bound up in local communities.
106. Other particles could take on names of the cardinal virtues.
107. Later, in the retelling, the act would take on a certain amount of bravado.
108. Although a late developer,[sentencedict .com] it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion.
109. In these circumstances such corporate wealth begins to take on an almost abstract quality.
110. Hopefully, when the financial climate gets better we'll be able to take on more workers.
111. They begin, after all, as caricatures who only take on further dimensions as the tale develops.
112. As companies become disembodied into some Barlowian cyberspace, they take on the character of software.
113. In that respect, physicians take on an additional burden beyond their immediate remit.
114. He ran out of sponsorship money and had to take on odd jobs like window cleaning to fund his Formula Three programme.
115. When their businesses were booming, they could afford to pose as tough-talking entrepreneurs keen to take on the telephone companies.
116. If it should turn out that the fire was started by an arsonist, the story will take on additional meaning.
117. Even in his final months Clinton is unwilling to take on demagogues to his far right.
118. Private contractors take over from them next month, and have said they won't take on Tony and George Sabin.
119. But for the moment, it seems he isn't the luxury most women want to take on a desert island with them.
120. Along the way, it effectively preempted the problem of needing to take on token individuals to comply with government mandates.
More similar words: take out, take off, take over, make out, shake off, make over, for the sake of, take, stake, take to, take for, take up, take care, take down, take away, take time, take the road, take apart, take after, take place, take turns, take note of, undertake, take care of, by mistake, take the lead, take it easy, take part in, take charge, take effect.