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4 PHRASAL VERB If you take up an offer or a challenge, you accept it. □ [V P n] Increasingly, more farmers are taking up the challenge of growing asparagus. [Also V n P ]

5 PHRASAL VERB If something takes up a particular amount of time, space, or effort, it uses that amount. □ [V P n] I know how busy you must be and naturally I wouldn't want to take up too much of your time. □ [be V -ed P + with ] A good deal of my time is taken up with reading critical essays and reviews. □ [V P n + with ] The aim was not to take up valuable time with the usual boring pictures.

6 PHRASAL VERB [no passive] If you take up a particular position, you get into a particular place in relation to something else. □ [V P n] He had taken up a position in the centre of the room. [Also V n P ]

7 PHRASAL VERB If you take up something such as a task or a story, you begin doing it after it has been interrupted or after someone else has begun it. □ [V P n] Gerry's partner Jo takes up the story. □ [V P wh] 'No, no, no,' says Damon, taking up where Dave left off. [Also V n P ]

8 → see also take-up

▸  take up on PHRASAL VERB If you take someone up on their offer or invitation, you accept it. □ [V n P P n] Since she'd offered to babysit, I took her up on it.

▸  take upon → see take on 6

▸  take up with PHRASAL VERB If you are taken up with something, it keeps you busy or fully occupied. □ [be V -ed P ] His mind was wholly taken up with the question.

take|away /te I kəwe I / (takeaways )

1 N‑COUNT A takeaway is a shop or restaurant which sells hot cooked food that you eat somewhere else. [BRIT ] in AM, use takeout 2 N‑COUNT A takeaway is hot cooked food that you buy from a shop or restaurant and eat somewhere else. [BRIT ] □  …a Chinese takeaway. in AM, use takeout

ta ke-home pa y N‑UNCOUNT Your take-home pay is the amount of your wages or salary that is left after income tax and other payments have been subtracted. [BUSINESS ] □  He was earning £215 a week before tax: take-home pay, £170.

tak|en /te I kən/

1Taken is the past participle of take .

2 ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If you are taken with something or someone, you are very interested in them or attracted to them. [INFORMAL ] □ [+ with ] She seems very taken with the idea.

take|off /te I kɒf, [AM ] -ɔːf/ (takeoffs ) also take-off

1 N‑VAR Takeoff is the beginning of a flight, when an aircraft leaves the ground.

2 N‑COUNT [usu sing] A takeoff of someone is a humorous imitation of the way in which they behave. □ [+ of ] The programme was worth watching for an inspired takeoff of the Collins sisters.

take|out /te I koʊt/ (takeouts )

1 N‑COUNT A takeout is a store or restaurant which sells hot cooked food that you eat somewhere else. [AM ] in BRIT, use takeaway 2 N‑COUNT [oft N n] A takeout or takeout food is hot cooked food which you buy from a store or restaurant and eat somewhere else. [AM ] in BRIT, use takeaway

take|over ◆◇◇ /te I koʊvə ^r / (takeovers )

1 N‑COUNT A takeover is the act of gaining control of a company by buying more of its shares than anyone else. [BUSINESS ] □ [+ of ] …the government's takeover of the corporation.

2 N‑COUNT A takeover is the act of taking control of a country, political party, or movement by force. □  There's been a military takeover of some kind. SYNONYMS takeover NOUN 1

merger:…the proposed merger of two Japanese banks.

coup:…a military coup.

incorporation:…the incorporation of Piedmont Airlines and PSA into U.S. Air.