What is the meaning of Take_up?

Alternative form of take-up

To lift; to raise.

  1. To pick up.
  2. To remove (a ground or floor surface, including the bed of a road or the track of a railway).

    To pick up.

    To remove (a ground or floor surface, including the bed of a road or the track of a railway).

    To absorb (a liquid), to soak up.

    To shorten (a garment), especially by hemming.

    To tighten or wind in (a rope, slack, etc.)

    To occupy; to consume (space or time).

    To take, to assume (one’s appointed or intended place).

    To set about doing or dealing with (something).

    1. To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.

      To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.

      To begin functioning in (a role or position), to assume (an office).

      To address or discuss (an issue).

      To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.).

      To accept (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.) from.

      To join in (saying something).

      To resume, to return to something that was interrupted.

      To implement, to employ, to put into use.

      To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class.

      To begin occupying and working (a plot of uncultivated land), to break in.

      To pay off, to clear (a debt, loan, mortgage, etc.).

      To arrest (a person).

      To reprove or reproach (a person).

      To begin to support or patronize, to sponsor (a person), to adopt as protégé.

      To seduce (a person); to rizz up.

      Source: wiktionary.org