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单词 take someone on
释义

take someone on

1Engage an employee.If that goes well, the employer will take him on as an apprentice....
  • But he is finding it impossible to find an employer willing to take him on as an apprentice.
  • In Yogyakarta, UGM was recruiting a large number of employees and Soenaryo was taken on as an office boy at the school of technology.

Synonyms

engage, hire, employ, enrol, enlist, sign up, take into employment, put on the payroll
informal take on board
2Be willing or ready to meet an adversary or opponent: a group of villagers has taken on the planners...
  • So it means that the low fare carrier in Australia can withstand one hell of a battle, and if Qantas wants to take us on, we're ready to take 'em on.
  • And even they liked it, came increasingly willingly to the slaughter, Posh and Becks, John Humphries, Germaine Greer, ready to take him on.
  • But he's a talk show host, so his opponents should take him on in public.

Synonyms

compete against, oppose, challenge, confront, face, fight, pit/match oneself against, vie with, contend with/against, battle with/against, struggle against, take up cudgels against, stand up to, go head to head against
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