take care of
Idioms-
Attend to, assume responsibility for, as in Go ahead to the movies, I'll take care of parking the car , or They've hired someone to take care of the children for a week . [Late 1500s]
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Beat up or kill someone, as in If he didn't pay up they threatened to take care of him and his family . [ Slang ; c. 1930]
Example Sentences
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Your money manager says she’ll have someone take care of it.
It’s a ways off from tribes outright holding their homelands as sovereign nations, with the freedom to take care of the land as they see fit; however, these agreements can also help support tribes that do not yet have the capacity to single-handedly manage hundreds or thousands of acres.
From Los Angeles Times
During tours of the newly returned land, tribal culture experts kept breaking off to take care of the various native plants that they noticed needed some love.
From Los Angeles Times
Your money manager says she will have someone take care of it.
Ma tried to get him to stay put, but he insisted that the other bachelors in his tenement would take care of him, and the two men who supported him on either side nodded to confirm this as they exited the shop.
From Literature
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