take care of

verb

1. To look after, to care for.

   “My elderly mother needs to be taken care of.”

2. To deal with, handle.

   “Can somebody take care of the customers while I clean this mess?”

   “People had time to think up some questions, including reporters who shouted “Are you going to shoot down the balloon?” at President Biden shortly before the dirigible came down. “We’re going to take care of it,” the president told reporters in Syracuse, N.Y., where he was visiting family.”

3. To kill.

   “In the motion picture ‘The Godfather’, gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled.”