to take
- verb
- /teɪk/
- During the meeting, she decided to take the opportunity to present her ideas.
- take responsibility
- take the opportunity
- take a course
Should my girlfriend take her ex best friend back?
- Should my girlfriend take her ex best friend back?
- Alright man, let's take this first call right here.
- If you hand it to Rob, he'll take it, right?
- All right, you can take that one.
- How many opportunities I didn't take because of what they did?
- So mom was like, good deal, I would take it.
- And I said, well, I would take double and they get OK.
Examples
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Google says sure, take it, it's yours.
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If you hand it to Rob, he'll take it, right?
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Is there one thing that I can take from that and apply?
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All right, you can take that one.
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You must make a choice to take a chance, or your life will never change.
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Still not sure why, but I'll take it anyway.
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And then we have to take all those inputs.
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Instead, encouraging patients to take small practical steps themselves is the best way forward.
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Access to loans allowed students to take additional courses each semester and over the summer.
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Education, support, and helping patients take control are often key to initiating insulin in primary care.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
To receive or be given something
To take something someone offers, for example a gift or invitation
Allow someone to join a group or organization
Allow someone to join a group or organization
Antonyms
Idioms
- Formal
To do something without asking for permission, as if you are allowed
- Formal
To refuse to answer questions in court to avoid saying something that could make you look guilty
- Formal
Refuse to answer questions in court or by police to avoid saying you did something wrong
- Offensive
To do very well and act confidently, often in a forceful way
- Literature
Behave in a very foolish way without thinking clearly
- Texting
To understand and accept that someone's remark makes sense even if you do not agree
- Informal
Leave a game or group angrily because you did not get your way
- Informal
To accept unpleasant results and sometimes punishment for something you did
- Informal
A situation where people who should not lead control things and cause chaos
To keep going without giving up after facing many hard times
To make someone lose the job or money they need to live
Phrasal Verbs
To remove something from a place or reduce something important, for example a right
Compounds
- Specialized
A device or action that pulls in extra material, for example slack in a rope
How Willing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Take comes from an old Norse word taka meaning 'to grab' or 'get'. So to take into a group or accept an offer is like 'grabbing' or 'receiving' what is offered.