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What does catch on mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word catch on? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To begin to understand; to realize.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To become popular; to become commonplace; to become the standard.
  3. (intransitive, New England, dated, of food) To become stuck to the cooking vessel; to brown or burn slightly.
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Although iTV will take some time to catch on, this will most probably move in line with the quality and quantity of the service provided.
Some commentators believe soccer is fundamentally foreign to the American psyche and will never catch on.
Park and ride schemes were trumpeted amid much enthusiasm more than a decade ago but took a long time to catch on in Swindon.
It's another difficult wreck to shot, lying along the tide with a smooth keel exposed, so the grapple has little to catch on.
English-speaking children very soon catch on to the correlation between the conceptual distinction and the distributional cues for it.
You would think a few dingbats in the mainstream financial market community would catch on to this repetitive deception.

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