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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

take under en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (of a business, transitive) To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress.
    • The costs associated with Patagonia's shift to organic material nearly took the company under, but given the company values, it almost had no choice. 2015, Carole and David Schwinn, The Transformative Workplace:
    • I knew she didn’t have to be here, out in the sun with me trying to do whatever I could to keep this fire from taking the business under, but she was 2021, Meka James, Heat of Love:
    • It's believed that the Great Depression then took the business under. 2013, Faiz Siddiqui, “The First Black Students Admitted to 15 Prestigious U.S. Universities, and Their Stories”, in Complex.com, archived from the original on 24 May 2023:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
taken under Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
took under Tense=Past lexicographic
taking under Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
takes under Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

undertake · undertaker · take-under