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take_up_with

take up with

English

Verb

take up with

  1. Used other than as an idiom: see take, up, take up, with.
    He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains.
    He took up painting with his wife.
    He took up the overpayment with his supplier.
  2. To form a close relationship with (someone).
    I hear that John has taken up with Jane.
  3. To become interested in (something).
    • 2001, Vincent Curcio, Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius, page 112:
      It seems, then, that automobiles and automobiling were on Walter Chrysler's mind for a long time before he took up with this legendary Locomobile
  4. (archaic) To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with

Quotations

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:take up with.

References

  • take up with at take in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • take up with at OneLook Dictionary Search