ENTER UPON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enter upon mean? 

• ENTER UPON (verb)
  The verb ENTER UPON has 1 sense:

1. take possession of

  Familiarity information: ENTER UPON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTER UPON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take possession of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

come upon; enter upon; luck into

Context example:

She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives

Hypernyms (to "enter upon" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody

 Context examples 

Through my means, He opens to you a noble career; as my wife only can you enter upon it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When shall you be able to enter upon your new duties?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your toils only begin; wrap yourself in furs and provide food, for we shall soon enter upon a journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The job was assured, though when the call would come to enter upon his duties nobody knew.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So when I saw you throw down your paper and enter upon a train of thought, I was very happy to have the opportunity of reading it off, and eventually of breaking into it, as a proof that I had been in rapport with you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)