to enter upon

Examples

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• I unlocked the big wooden door of my hovel and stepped back, and Mayor Louver stepped back, and Tiny murmured to Mr. Mo, "Enter upon your palace, your majesty."

  Fiction book (2001)

• Instead, she left the lane, turned south, and entered upon that warren of little trails that crisscrossed the savanna, finding what she had sought from the moment she climbed out of bed: the freedom of the open air, escape from nurses and bells, the joy of striding along as the sun began to display its power in the east.

  Fiction book (1994)

• "After the war, I could not seek the higher education of Princeton and Yale, and then I determined to enter upon business life."

  Academic text (1991)

• "I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to anyone," Grant said with typical understatement.

  Academic text (2010)

• Every person chosen or appointed to any office under this state, before entering upon the discharge of its duties, shall take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States.

  Blog text (17)

• We hadn't yet entered upon rape and genital mutilation, the enslavement of women as property.

  Blog text (27)

• They entered upon it with trepidation and considerable mistrust, for Benny and Senta haven't gotten along for years, maybe never.

  Fiction book (1992)

• So, too, the scientist who resolves that he will not serve a warlord, a price-gouging monopolist, or a self-serving propagandist usually stops his pursuit of scientific knowledge and enters upon another business.

  Academic text (2004)

• Beyond this battery was a short stretch of shell-pitted nothingness—for we had entered upon that arid and blistering vacuum; the lunar landscape, so often described... but the particular quality of which it is so difficult to convey.

  Academic text (1996)

• The new owner will enter upon the property next week and begin renovations immediately.

Synonyms

C

to come into

vsto enter upon

105 3.9

To receive money or property unexpectedly, often after someone dies

is more formal and usually involves taking control of land

C

to come upon

vsto enter upon

• Formal

2 7.6

To receive property or money after someone dies as an inheritance

is a formal act of taking possession, often of land

Antonyms

A

to abandon

773 3.1

Leave someone or something behind permanently and without care

R

to relinquish

• Formal

69 7.2

To give up control, a right, or something you own

How Formal

to enter upon

• Formal

1 6.8

to take control

227 3.5

to take over

222 3.8

to occupy

79 3.0

to move into

439 1.0

Surface Forms

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Etymology