take up with

take up with (third-person singular simple present takes up with, present participle taking up with, simple past took up with, past participle taken up with)

1. To form a close relationship with (someone).

   I hear that John has taken up with Jane.

2. To become interested in (something).
   • 2001, Vincent Curcio, Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius, page 112:

     It seems, then, that automobiles and automobiling were on Walter Chrysler's mind for a long time before he took up with this legendary Locomobile

3. To begin living together with; to lodge with.
4. (archaic) To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take,‎ up,‎ take up,‎ with.

   He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains.

   He took up painting with his wife.

   He took up the overpayment with his supplier.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:take up with.

• take up with under take in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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