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to take orders

to take orders

7 2.7
To write down customers' food or drink choices for the kitchen
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : 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
20 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
716 1.7

To say no to a request or offer

to disregard
119 3.9

Ignore something or someone on purpose

How Attentive

to serve
869 1.0
to take orders
7 2.7
to disregard
119 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'.