take part

From Middle English taken part, a calque of Latin participō. Compare partake, German teilnehmen, Finnish ottaa osaa.

• "He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add."
• "I listened to a discussion in which she took part."
• "They are killed, tortured, made to take part in the fighting, banished from their homes."
• "Thus the revolution is that one can speak about an access to digital culture within the right to take part in cultural life."
• "So didst thou love man, that thou wouldest take part with him of his misery, that he might take part with thee of thy blessedness."
• "We have two famous tribal drums called Ntiri and Abia which are so stimulating that everybody used to take part when they sounded, but Ndiuka were educated not to dance it because it is native."
• "Importantly now, all of the parishioners were expected to participate in singing God's praise and at communion received the bread and wine at tables set out for all to take part."