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to take orders

to take orders

43 2.7
To write down customers' food or drink choices for the kitchen
  • phrasal verb
: tomar pedidos
  • Let me take your order
  • take orders by phone
  • waiter took orders
  • took orders from customers

Every week I would take orders and and prepare those orders the night before they would go out.

Examples

Synonyms

to wait on
vsto take orders
52 3.4

To serve people at a table by bringing food or drinks

listen to customers and record their food or drink choices for staff

Antonyms

to refuse
∞ 1.7

To say no to a request or offer

to disregard
106 3.9

Ignore something or someone on purpose

How Attentive

to serve
901 1.0
to take orders
43 2.7
to disregard
106 3.9

Surface Forms

take orders infinitive
taking orders present participle
takes orders third person singular
took orders past
taken orders past participle

Morphology

take + order

The meaning 'to listen to and record customers' requests' is directly derivable from combining 'take' (to receive/accept) with 'order' (a customer's request). The construction 'take + order' follows a common, compositional English pattern (receive an order) and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand it.

Etymology

Take orders comes from the restaurant scene where a waiter writes down what customers ask for; to take an order is to listen and record a person's food or drink choice. That's why it means 'to listen to customers and record their food or drink choices'.