take care of

verb3

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?
3. •
   (slang, euphemistic) To kill.

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