Meaning of Taking | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act by which something is taken.
   countable, uncountable
2. A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
   uncountable
3. A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
   uncountable
4. Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.”

“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.”

“What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?”

“"[...] 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. "'Get away, this moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?' she cried, in a tone of disgust. [...]”

““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.””

“‘Poor soul - she was quite in a taking. You see, she’d opened the door to the next compartment by mistake.’”

““[...] 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.””

“Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.”

“Count the shop's takings.”

“[...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.”

“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; [...].”

“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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