词组 | take over |
释义 | take over 1. take over • take over sth • take sth over to start being responsible for something or doing a job that someone else was responsible for before you: ▪ Bonnie Fuller is to take over the editor's job at Cosmopolitan magazine. ▪ We'll stop halfway, and I'll take over the driving. ▪ Legendary coach Shula announced his retirement after 26 years with the team. So who will take over? +as ▪ TOKYO, Jan 11 - Ryutaro Hashimoto took over as Japan's prime minister today. +from ▪ Edouard Michelin took over from Francois, his father, as head of the family firm. 2. take over sth • take sth over to get control of a company by buying it or by buying most of its shares (=the equal parts into which the ownership of a company is divided): ▪ Midland Bank was taken over by Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank last year. ▪ The engineering company T-I has taken over the Dowty Group, based in Cheltenham. City experts predict that hundreds of jobs may be lost. takeover n C when a company gets control of another company by buying most of its shares: ▪ Following its takeover of Coalite, Anglo United are selling eight businesses worth $300m. takeover bid (=an attempt to get control of a company) ▪ Kingfisher fought off a $1.8 billion takeover bid by Dixons. 3. take over • take over sth • take sth over to get control of a place or a political organization, especially by using force: ▪ In January 1976, Moroccan forces took over Western Sahara. ▪ The narcotics dealers have taken over the city. They control businesses, politics, everything. ▪ When the communists took over in 1945, they were determined to industrialize Yugoslavia. takeover n singular when someone gets control of a place, especially by using force: ▪ the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia 4. take over sth • take sth over if a particular kind of people or things take over a place, large numbers of them appear there, so that there are more of them than the people or things that were there before - use this when you wish the changes had not happened: ▪ Every summer the town is taken over by tourists. ▪ The garden had been seriously neglected, and had been completely taken over by weeds and brambles. 5. take over/take over sth if something takes over or if it takes over your life, it starts to have a very big effect on you and you do not think about anything else: ▪ When you run your own company, it's easy to let work take over completely. take over your life ▪ Once the baby is born, it will completely take over your life. 6. take over if a feeling takes over, you start to feel it strongly and it controls your behaviour: ▪ I saw the ball coming towards me, then my instincts took over. I leapt in to the air and caught it. ▪ She knew she had to stay calm - she mustn't allow panic to take over. 7. take over sth • take sth over to start living in or using a house or other building: ▪ I'm going to be working in Singapore for six months, so a friend is taking over my flat. ▪ Stacey's bookstore is expanding, and taking over a larger building on Market Street. 8. take over • take over sth to start to control what other people are doing, in an annoying way: ▪ This was a nice place to work until she came to work here and started trying to take over. ▪ It's always difficult discussing things when there's a man in the room. They always take over the conversation. |
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