English

Verb

tap into

1. To establish a connection with something, especially in order to take advantage of something
2. To access a resource or object.

   When he ran out of money, he decided to tap into his trust fund.

Quotations

• 19 December 2014, Paul M Farber in The Guardian Online, Die-ins demand that we bear witness to black people's fears that they'll be next

  Though the current wave of die-ins began after grand juries in Ferguson and New York City refused to indict the cops who used lethal force against Michael Brown and Eric Garner, they tap into a deep well of what professor Salamishah Tillet calls “civic estrangement” from a state that ignores excessive police violence against black and brown people.

• 2004 Mark-Anthony Falzon - Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora

  A significant number of Sindhi businesses in London tap into their connections with India and elsewhere to cater for the 'ethnic niche' market.

Anagrams

• antitop