Definition of "take up"

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Mark 2:11

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking.

1865 November 26, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (fiction)

I never said thank you for taking up our case.

1993 December 12, Jim Sheridan, Terry George, In the Name of the Father, spoken by Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Universal Pictures

Each of the things he took up, he took up with passion and intensity

2004, Jane Powell, Linda Svendsen, Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home‎, page 44

It is hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed that a temporary writ of injunction issue, enjoining said defendant and all persons acting under or for it, from in any manner taking up, disturbing or interfering with the road-bed and track of said plaintiff so as to prevent the passage of cars thereon

1876, Supreme Court of Iowa, June Term 1876 court record, “The Davenport Central Railway Co. v. The Davenport Gas Light Co., Appeal from Scott Circuit Court”, published in The American Railway Reports, Volume 14

They had pickaxes in their hands and wore corduroy trousers and that little leather band below the knee that goes by the astonishing name of “York-to-London.” They seemed to be working with peculiar vehemence, so that I stopped and asked one what they were doing. “We are taking up Picadilly,” he said to me.

1915, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales (fiction)

Passenger traffic was subsequently discontinued, and early in the recent war a considerable amount of the permanent way at the Treforest end of the railway was taken up.

1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52

"So I'd imagine if they were to take up this system, or a similar system, we should be able to build quicker."

2008 April 23, Iolo ap Dafydd, “Wood homes 'solution' to shortage”, in BBC News‎

Also, the grade 12’s in the class were also called down to the cafeteria from 9:30 am to about 9:50 am, so they missed class when I took up some of the worksheets.

2015, Mr. Bawa, Mr. Bawa's Semester 1 Classes at St. Mary's‎

Can someone in CSCC37 (mustafa's tutorial!) email me the solution to the midterm? (the tutorial right after the midterm where he took up the solutions)

2018, /u/CharmingHistorian3, Mustafa's C37 midterm solution?‎