on the part of on behalf of, in the name of, for the sake of, for, by proxy for, acting for, under orders from.
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take part participate, engage in, play a part in, be a party to, join, join in; partake, associate, have a hand in; contribute, chip in, enter into, sit in on, have a voice in, vote.
-v. 15. divide, break, cleave, split; dissect, anato mize, dismantle, take apart, break up; subdivide, sec-tionalize, segment, fragment; divaricate, splay, deploy, fan out, spread; diverge, deviate, radiate, fork, bifurcate; ramify, branch out, swerve off.
16. keep apart, put apart, separate; dissolve, decompose, disintegrate, disorganize; sunder, dissever, sever, abscind; disconnect, disjoin, detach, dissociate; disunite, divorce, isolate, segregate; cut apart, cut adrift, hive off, split off.
17. come apart, break away, separate; loose, get loose, disengage, unclinch, ungear, unyoke; unmoor, cast off.
18. distribute, apportion, allot, allocate, dole, deal, parcel; divide, SI. divvy up, halve, carve up; administer, assign, dispense, mete, partition.
19. depart, part company, go separate ways, split up, break up; quit, vacate, go away, go off; get up and go, be gone, take leave, withdraw, retire, make an exit; disband, disperse, scatter, dispel; break away, push off, SI. hit the road.
20. part with give up, relinquish, abandon, renounce; forgo, have done with, be rid of, forsake; surrender, yield, cede, release; discard, get rid of, dismiss, lay aside, throw away, jettison.
-adj. 21. half, partial, partly; bi-, semi-, hemi-, demi-; a bit, a little, a wee bit.
partake, v. 1. share or share in, participate or participate in, have a part in, take part in, have a share in, have a finger in the pie.