to accept an offer or a challenge (=an offer to fight or compete) that someone has made to you
to continue to discuss or deal with an idea, problem, or suggestion
to fill a particular amount of space or time
to reduce the length of a piece of clothing or some curtains
to start a battle using weapons
to start doing something regularly as a habit, job, or interest
to start living somewhere
Chris has taken up jogging.
He insisted he would not take up more than an hour of her time.
I took up smoking when I was at school.
I’ll try not to take up too much of your time.
Mice have taken up residence under their floorboards.
Mrs Pankhurst took up the cause of women’s rights.
One of our greatest athletes has taken up a new challenge.
Oxygen take-up would be the first sign of metabolic activity in the neural cells, the first sign of regenerated life.
Schools are taking up the offer of cut-price computers.
She fell silent, and her brother took up the story.
She was beginning to feel as if she should take up childminding full time.
So you can imagine the kind of creep she tended to take up with.
The new surgeon will take up her post in May.
Then in 1710 he had moved with her to Edinburgh to take up a position in her father's woollen manufacture.
These files take up a lot of disk space.
Would you be willing to take up arms for this cause?
takes up
taking up
took up
taken up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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