taking
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
taking/ˈteɪkɪŋ/
▶noun
- 1 the action or process of taking.
- 2 (takings) the amount of money earned by a business from the sale of goods or services.
– phrases
for the taking ready or available to take advantage of.
for the taking ready or available to take advantage of.
– derivatives
takingly adverb.
takingly adverb.
'taking' also found in these Oxford entries:
absorption costing
- accessory
- acid house
- administer
- aerial
- affirm
- ambulance
- amp
- appoggiatura
- arbitrage
- asset-stripping
- astrolabe
- attention
- backwater
- bench
- best
- bezique
- biennial
- bimonthly
- bodily
- camera
- camera
- candid
- candidate
- cantoris
- careful
- cast
- cat
- centred
- closed
- closure
- cognizance
- cold turkey
- conference
- consider
- considering
- counter
- counting
- crowd
- cruel
- decani
- declarative
- defloration
- deposition
- drift
- endocytosis
- enjoyment
- entrepreneur
- entry
- enumerator
