Definition of "take over" []

• To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp (verb)
• To adopt a further responsibility or duty (verb)
• To relieve someone temporarily (verb)
• To buy out the ownership of a business (verb)
• To appropriate something without permission (verb)

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• "You go home, and the entire news media is going to take over West Wackadoodle, PA, and, while it might be fabu business for the local IHOP, they will camp out on your front lawn and spend the entire break tearing into your every secret."
• "They also insisted the scandal could have no impact on the imminent ministerial decision on whether to allow News Corp to take over BSkyB.But Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat president, said News Corp executives had by their conduct proved themselves not to be "fit and proper persons" to take over BSkyB."
• "While only PNGS could help the astronauts make a successful descent to the lunar surface, AGS had to be waiting and ready to navigate an emergency return to the command module; in the final seconds before touchdown, AGS also could take over from PNGS if it failed."