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get onto

verb

  1. Alsoget on to board or cause or help to board (a bus, train, etc)
  2. intr to make contact with; communicate with
  3. intr to become aware of (something illicit or secret)

    the boss will get onto their pilfering unless they're careful

  4. intr to deliver a demand, request, or rebuke to

    I'll get onto the manufacturers to replace these damaged goods

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Now he’s trying to say that merely getting onto the White House campus is enough to cover the administration.

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