prendre le relais

French

Alternative forms

• prendre le relai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɑ̃.dʁə lə ʁ(ə).lɛ/

Verb

prendre le relais

1. to take over, to handle it from here, to take it from here, to pick up the slack

Usage notes

Occasionally written as prendre le relai following the spelling reforms of 1990, though relais remains more common.