"taking" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 9, in The Younger Brother, volume 2, London: for the author, page 263",
          "text": "His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 3, Chapter 1",
          "text": "“Yes, Paris must be a taking place,” said Humphrey. “Grand shop-winders, trumpets, and drums; and here be we out of doors in all winds and weathers—”",
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          "ref": "1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles, page 291",
          "text": "The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady. A young lady. A very taking young lady. She called him uncle. But walked away in another direction as his cab started. The porter's eye was beginning to twinkle; […]",
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        "Alluring; attractive."
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          "roman": "privlekatelen",
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          "word": "привлекателен"
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          "sense": "alluring; attractive",
          "word": "hurmaava"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "ref": "1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The False One, act IV, scene 3",
          "text": "Come not near me,\nFor I am yet too taking for your company.",
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        "Infectious; contagious."
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        "(obsolete) Infectious; contagious."
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      "word": "bestowal"
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      "word": "restitution"
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      "word": "receiving"
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          "ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 27, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 290",
          "text": "At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.",
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          "ref": "2010, Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements, page 75",
          "text": "Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.",
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          "roman": "vzemane",
          "sense": "act by which something is taken",
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          "sense": "act by which something is taken",
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          "sense": "act by which something is taken",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "act by which something is taken",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Übernahme"
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        "(uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions."
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          "sense": "seizure of someone's goods or possessions",
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          "_dis1": "0 94 1 4",
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          "sense": "seizure of someone's goods or possessions",
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          "_dis1": "0 94 1 4",
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          "sense": "seizure of someone's goods or possessions",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Inbesitznahme"
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          "_dis1": "0 94 1 4",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "seizure of someone's goods or possessions",
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          "word": "Ergreifung"
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          "ref": "1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene III",
          "text": "What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, vol. 2, ch. 16, p. 321",
          "text": "\"[...] at last, he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird. He might have stuck a knife into her neck, she started round in such a taking.\n\"'Get away, this moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?' she cried, in a tone of disgust. [...]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 30, in Far from the Madding Crowd",
          "text": "And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your takings.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 102",
          "text": "‘Poor soul - she was quite in a taking. You see, she’d opened the door to the next compartment by mistake.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave, New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 26",
          "text": "[...] there’ll be a beating for someone, by my reckoning, if he’s not there by the time the King’s looking round for him. He’s been in a rare taking since the outriders came in, that I can tell you.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking)."
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        "(uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking)."
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          "_dis1": "1 2 95 2",
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bezpokojstvo",
          "sense": "state of mental distress",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "безпокойство"
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          "_dis1": "1 2 95 2",
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          "sense": "state of mental distress",
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          "word": "geistiger Ausnahmezustand"
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          "_dis1": "1 2 95 2",
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          "sense": "state of mental distress",
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          "word": "Anfall"
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        {
          "text": "Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week."
        },
        {
          "text": "Count the shop's takings."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in A Room of One’s Own, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1931, page 60",
          "text": "[...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586",
          "text": "According to T. B. Sands in his history of the M.S.W.J.R. (Oakwood Press: 8s 6d) Fay at first had to await cash takings from stations before he could pay his staff; [...].",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 12, in A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, pages 554–555",
          "text": "The child was not returned to the mother. [...] strangers giving him suck found it easier to display the utter despair in their faces that made for successful begging, whereas if [the mother] had had the pleasure of clasping her little son to her bosom all day, it would have been impossible to keep a spark of joy, however tiny, out of her eyes, which would have adversely affected the takings.",
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        "Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example)."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example)."
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        {
          "word": "income"
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        {
          "word": "receipts"
        }
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          "_dis1": "2 3 12 83",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "cash or money received (in the plural)",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "Einnahmen"
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          "_dis1": "2 3 12 83",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "cash or money received (in the plural)",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
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          "word": "fáltais"
        }
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          "seizure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene III",
          "text": "What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, vol. 2, ch. 16, p. 321",
          "text": "\"[...] at last, he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird. He might have stuck a knife into her neck, she started round in such a taking.\n\"'Get away, this moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?' she cried, in a tone of disgust. [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 30, in Far from the Madding Crowd",
          "text": "And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your takings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 102",
          "text": "‘Poor soul - she was quite in a taking. You see, she’d opened the door to the next compartment by mistake.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave, New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 26",
          "text": "[...] there’ll be a beating for someone, by my reckoning, if he’s not there by the time the King’s looking round for him. He’s been in a rare taking since the outriders came in, that I can tell you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking)."
      ],
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        "(uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking)."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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        {
          "text": "Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week."
        },
        {
          "text": "Count the shop's takings."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in A Room of One’s Own, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1931, page 60",
          "text": "[...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586",
          "text": "According to T. B. Sands in his history of the M.S.W.J.R. (Oakwood Press: 8s 6d) Fay at first had to await cash takings from stations before he could pay his staff; [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 12, in A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, pages 554–555",
          "text": "The child was not returned to the mother. [...] strangers giving him suck found it easier to display the utter despair in their faces that made for successful begging, whereas if [the mother] had had the pleasure of clasping her little son to her bosom all day, it would have been impossible to keep a spark of joy, however tiny, out of her eyes, which would have adversely affected the takings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example)."
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        "(in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "income"
        },
        {
          "word": "receipts"
        }
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      "ipa": "/ˈteɪkɪŋ/"
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    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:taking",
      "word": "acquisition"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vzemane",
      "sense": "act by which something is taken",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "вземане"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act by which something is taken",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Nahme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act by which something is taken",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Einnahme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act by which something is taken",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Übernahme"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "seizure of someone's goods or possessions",
      "word": "takavarikointi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "seizure of someone's goods or possessions",
      "word": "pidätys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seizure of someone's goods or possessions",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Inbesitznahme"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seizure of someone's goods or possessions",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Ergreifung"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezpokojstvo",
      "sense": "state of mental distress",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "безпокойство"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of mental distress",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "geistiger Ausnahmezustand"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of mental distress",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "erratische Verfassung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of mental distress",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Anfall"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cash or money received (in the plural)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Einnahmen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "cash or money received (in the plural)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "fáltais"
    }
  ],
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}

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