- a scene or part of a film that is filmed at one time without stopping the camera
- We managed to get it right in just two takes.
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- [usually singular] (informal) an amount of money that somebody receives, especially the money that is earned by a business during a particular period of time synonym takings
- How much is my share of the take?
- The auction was predicted to make $20 million, but the actual take turned out to be half that figure.
- take on something (informal) the particular opinion or idea that somebody has about something
- What's his take on the plan?
- a new take on the Romeo and Juliet story (= a way of presenting it)
Word Originlate Old English tacan ‘get (especially by force), capture’, from Old Norse taka ‘grasp, lay hold of’, of unknown ultimate origin.
Idioms
See take in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe on the take
- (informal) to accept money from somebody for helping them in a dishonest or illegal way
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