take point
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Verb edit
take point (third-person singular simple present takes point, present participle taking point, simple past took point, past participle taken point)
- (military) To assume the first and most exposed position in a formation in combat; to serve as the lead soldier or unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.
- Synonym: run point
- (by extension) To assume a key role in an operation.
- Synonym: run point
- 2012 September 15, “The war in Syria: Death from the skies”, in The Economist:
- But unlike the intervention in Libya, where France and Britain took point and America “led from behind”, an intervention in Syria would have to be a mostly American affair, and as such it would be done with massive force from the outset.
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Translations edit
to be the first, to lead in the combat
to assume a key role in an operation
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- take point on Wikipedia.Wikipedia