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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
takeaway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chinese
▪ Takeaways take aim for the stars CHINESE takeaway restaurants will soon be given a star rating to encourage higher standards.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a takeout pizza
▪ Dave just lives on beer and takeaways.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the staff restaurant, everything must be available in a hurry with an optional takeaway service.
▪ I've asked the restaurant to bring you round a takeaway.
▪ Left forearm rotation is one of the keys to a good takeaway.
▪ Shop raid: Thieves broke into a takeaway food shop in Northallerton.
▪ The Parkgate takeaway was declared the region's top chip shop in a competition we ran in 1990.
▪ You struggle on to the bus, pick up a takeaway, stagger back home.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
takeaway

also take-away, 1964 in reference to food-shops, from take (v.) + away. From 1970 as a noun.

Wiktionary
takeaway

a. (context chiefly UK Australia and New Zealand of food English) To be eaten off the premises. n. 1 (context chiefly UK Australia and New Zealand English) A restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere. 2 (context chiefly UK Australia and New Zealand English) A meal bought to be eaten elsewhere. 3 (context golf English) The preliminary part of a golfer′s swing when the club is brought back away from the ball. 4 (context US English) A concession made by a labor union in the course of negotiations. 5 (label en frequently plural) An idea from a talk, presentation, etc., that the listener or reader should remember and consider.

WordNet
takeaway

  1. n. prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises; "in England they call takeout food `takeaway'" [syn: takeout, takeout food]

  2. a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures

  3. the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass)

Wikipedia
Takeaway (disambiguation)

Takeaway can refer to:

  • Take-out food
  • Takeaway.com, an online food ordering website
  • The Takeaway (radio), an American public radio morning news show
  • The Takeaways, a fictional Australian pop-punk band represented in the series Sweet and Sour
  • Turnover (basketball)
  • Turnover (football)
  • Subtraction—an alternative name

Usage examples of "takeaway".

The smaller snowplows must have come, because Cater had been cleared, permitting car traffic and curbside crack takeaway to recommence, busy as Outback Steakhouse.

Astor postponed his decision in favour of finding out what was in the boxes that she had brought back from their local Kashmiri takeaway.

Korean pawnshops and tailors jostled with Vietnamese restaurants and takeaways, representing a weird chronicle of all the conflicts the U.

Outside the picture houses, curry houses, and Chinese takeaways of Peckham of a Friday night, there was nothing but characters head-butting lampposts and each other to Bruce Lee sound effects.

Otherwise it was Chinese takeaways all the way, collected from the town in my decrepit Renault 5.

Remember what happened when Mr Hong opened his takeaway fish bar on the site of the old temple in Dagon Street?

I prescribe him some liquid paraffin, and I recommend a bowel-loosening takeaway curry, and I promise that I will cook him dinner myself one evening.

The scent of joss-sticks is overlain with spices which are reminiscent of Sam's takeaways.