taking part

Verb

take part (third-person singular simple present takes part, present participle taking part, simple past took part, past participle taken part)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To participate or join.
   • He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add.
2. (idiomatic) To share or partake.
   • 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.1829, Jabez Burns, The Christian's sketch book, page 96
3. (dated) To support or ally oneself (with).
   • Yet we take part, on the whole, with the author : — and heartily wish him success in the great object of vindicating his country from unmerited aspersions, and trying to make us, in England, ashamed of the vices and defects which he has taken the trouble to point out in our national character and...1820, Charles Kitchell Gardner, The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review