📚 Take up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (take something up, take up something): Occupy time, space, or attention. ❗️ Examples: 1. I don't want to take up any more of your time. 2. The rest of that building will be taken up with some retail space, a small number of offices, possibly a hotel, and conference facilities. 3. Phil Burgess, group main board director of Emerson, Orbit's parent company, told the committee that only four per cent of the floor space would be taken up with the goods restricted by the covenant. 4. But many who currently sit in the Main Stand are angry that similar seats will not be available at the new stadium, because the space is taken up with expensive executive seats. 5. It is clear from the wording of s. 84 that the list of matters that may be relevant is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is in the discussion of the nature of the public interest that much of the investigative time is taken up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic