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10 VERB If you take one number or amount from another, you subtract it or deduct it. □ [V n + off ] Take off the price of the house, that's another hundred thousand.

11 VERB [no passive] If you cannot take something difficult, painful, or annoying, you cannot tolerate it without becoming upset, ill, or angry. □ [V n] Don't ever ask me to look after those kids again. I just can't take it!

12 VERB If you take something such as damage or loss, you suffer it, especially in war or in a battle. □ [V n] They have taken heavy casualties.

13 VERB [no passive] If something takes a certain amount of time, that amount of time is needed in order to do it. □ [V n n] Since the roads are very bad, the journey took us a long time. □ [V n] I had heard an appeal could take years. □ [V n to-inf] The sauce takes 25 minutes to prepare and cook. □ [V n n to-inf] The game took her less than an hour to finish. □ [V n v-ing] You must beware of those traps–you could take all day getting out of them. □ [V n to-inf] It takes 15 minutes to convert the plane into a car by removing the wings and the tail. □ [V n n to-inf] It had taken Masters about twenty hours to reach the house. □ [V n for n to-inf] It took thirty-five seconds for the hour to strike.

14 VERB [no passive] If something takes a particular quality or thing, that quality or thing is needed in order to do it. □ [V n] At one time, walking across the room took all her strength. □ [V n to-inf] It takes courage to say what you think. □ [V n] It takes a pretty bad level of performance before the teachers will criticize the students.

15 VERB If you take something that is given or offered to you, you agree to accept it. □ [V n] His sons took his advice.

16 VERB If you take a feeling such as pleasure, pride, or delight in a particular thing or activity, the thing or activity gives you that feeling. □ [V n + in ] They take great pride in their heritage. □ [V n + from ] The government will take comfort from the latest opinion poll.

17 VERB If a shop, restaurant, theatre, or other business takes a certain amount of money, they get that amount from people buying goods or services. [mainly BRIT , BUSINESS ] □ [V amount] The firm took £100,000 in bookings. in AM, usually use take in 18 N‑SING You can use take to refer to the amount of money that a business such as a store or theatre gets from selling its goods or tickets during a particular period. [mainly AM , BUSINESS ] □  It added another $11.8 million to the take, for a grand total of $43 million. in BRIT, usually use takings 19 VERB If you take a prize or medal, you win it. □ [V n] The film took first prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

20 VERB If you take the blame, responsibility, or credit for something, you agree to accept it. □ [V n] He took the blame for getting it wrong.

21 VERB If you take patients or clients, you accept them as your patients or clients. □ [V n] Some universities would be forced to take more students than they wanted.

22 VERB If you take a phone call, you speak to someone who is phoning you. □ [V n] Douglas phoned Catherine at her office. She refused to take his calls.

23 VERB If you take something in a particular way, you react in the way mentioned to a situation or to someone's beliefs or behaviour. □ [V n adv/prep] Unfortunately, no one took my messages seriously.