take care of

take care of
   1. to kill or render impotent
   Literally, to look after, whence to account for:
    Clearly, the commissionaire of the night-watch could easily be 'taken care of. (Forsyth, 1994)
   2. to bribe
   Another form of looking after:
    Osborne had always known which officials should be taken care of. (Archer 1979)

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