Press and Take up

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Press

Press verb - To take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right.
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Take up and press are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Take up" instead a verb "Press".
Nearby Words: pressed, pressing, pressroom

Take up

Take up verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.
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Press and take up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Press" instead a verb "Take up".

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  • Useful Notes / British Accents This presumably because of the amount of press-ganging which went on around Plymouth and the tendency of press-ganged sailors to desert or mutiny and take up as pirates.
    Source: Useful Notes / British Accents
  • This would take up one additional character per Just Bugs Me reference, but one fewer press of the Shift key...
    Source: WMG / TV Tropes aka: TV Tropes Wiki
  • It goes the other way when the WBC tries to press charges when local civilians take steps to block the protests, such as using their own vehicles to take up parking spaces, leaving the protesters nowhere to park or forming a human buffer between the protestors and the funeral.
    Source: There Should Be a Law
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