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take (sth) over phrasal verb ( GET CONTROL )
phrasal verb [M]
Definition
to get control of a company by buying most of its shares (= the equal parts into which the ownership of the company is divided)
The company he works for has recently been taken over.
See also: takeover
(Definition of take (sth) over (GET CONTROL) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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