take the helm
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To assume responsibility for steering a ship.
verb
To take over responsibility (of something) from someone else.
Example Sentences
- "The nation was also at peace. The Cold War had ended before Bill Clinton took the helm, and his presidency had experienced nothing that could be called a major international crisis. Turmoil in the Balkans and Middle East was nothing new. Iraq required attention but no massive deployment of Americans. There had been devastating, but fortunately isolated, terrorist attacks in Africa and in Oklahoma City. But the North Koreans had not invaded South Korea, nor had they lobbed one of their missiles in our direction. Communist China did not invade Taiwan. Libya remained quiet."