TAKING OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does taking over mean? 

• TAKING OVER (noun)
  The noun TAKING OVER has 1 sense:

1. acquisition of property by descent or by will

  Familiarity information: TAKING OVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKING OVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acquisition of property by descent or by will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

succession; taking over

Hypernyms ("taking over" is a kind of...):

acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)

 Context examples 

You will do best by being conciliatory rather than by taking over and assuming the lead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

For three months after taking over the practice I was kept very closely at work, and saw little of my friend Sherlock Holmes, for I was too busy to visit Baker Street, and he seldom went anywhere himself save upon professional business.

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