taking over

1. 1.

   acquisition of property by descent or by will

   Synonymssuccession

   Broaderacquisition

Questions about taking over

What does taking over mean?

taking over means "acquisition of property by descent or by will".

What is another word for taking over?

Close synonyms include succession. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is taking over a common word?

taking over is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.