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TAKE SOMETHING UP definition: 1. to fill an amount of space or time: 2. to start doing a particular job or activity: 3. to…. Learn more.
The meaning of TAKE-UP is the action of taking up. How to use take-up in a sentence.
If you take up something such as a task or a story, you begin doing it after it has been interrupted or after someone else has begun it.
1 to make something such as a piece of clothing shorter I need to take this skirt up a couple of inches. opposite let down. 2 to learn or start to do something, especially for pleasure They took up golf when they moved to Florida. She has taken up (= started to learn to play) the oboe.
take up meaning, definition, what is take up: to become interested in a new activity a...: Learn more.
'Take up' in a sentence: The soil was so dry that the plant seemed to take up the much-needed water instantly.
Take-up is the rate at which people apply for or buy something which is offered, for example financial help from the government or shares in a company.
Synonyms for TAKE UP: lift, raise, elevate, uplift, hoist, pick up, hike, uphold; Antonyms of TAKE UP: drop, fall, lower, slip, descend, push, bear, dip.
Definitions of take up. verb. turn one's interest to. “He took up herpetology at the age of fifty”. see more. channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something. verb. pursue or resume. “ take up a matter for consideration”.
to agree to or accept (an invitation, etc) to pursue further or resume (something): he took up French where he left off. to absorb (a liquid) to adopt as a protégé; act as a patron to. to occupy or fill (space or time) to interrupt, esp in order to contradict or criticize.