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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
taker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drug takers
▪ treatment for drug takers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
census
▪ Minorities, the urban poor and fast-growing Sunbelt states claimed to have been undercounted by the census takers.
drug
▪ The drug is still occasionally used experimentally by scientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers, as well as by dilettante drug takers.
▪ It means treatment, not just punishment, for drug takers.
risk
▪ Intellectual risk takers are the life blood of our school system and provide the vision which we so much need.
▪ Creativity inevitably involves taking risks, and, in Great Groups, it is understood that the risk taker will sometimes stumble.
▪ Veteran pilot Joe Reid was anything but a risk taker when it came to flying, his friends and co-workers say.
▪ Gradually, you will see yourself as a risk taker.
▪ Children become risk takers...
■ VERB
find
▪ They will make themselves seen and heard like fireworks on a dark night, and their services will always find takers.
▪ The sixteenth-birthday fantasy was a cherished one, but he hadn't found any takers yet.
▪ It's more difficult to find takers for it now, says Harry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tommy is a giver, not a taker.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A world in and of itself, a world that census takers had documented, one hundred thousand and growing.
▪ But most traders act simply as toll takers.
▪ Census takers then turn the difference into a mathematical formula and apply it to the overall locality.
▪ Despite the elaborate plans, there were few takers.
▪ I share the right hon. Gentleman's view about the remarks by the hostage takers.
▪ Intellectual risk takers are the life blood of our school system and provide the vision which we so much need.
▪ It was a dismal failure. 1926-27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taker

Taker \Tak"er\ (t[=a]k"[~e]r), n. One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
taker

"one who takes" in any sense, late 14c., agent noun from take (v.). Specifically "one who accepts a bet" from 1810.

Wiktionary
taker

n. 1 One who takes something. 2 A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives. 3 One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.

WordNet
taker
  1. n. one who accepts an offer

  2. one who takes a bet or wager

Wikipedia
Taker

Taker may refer to:

  • Eminent domain
  • The Undertaker (born 1965), American professional wrestler and actor
  • Undertaker, a funeral director
  • Takers, 2010 American film
  • Houston Takers, American Basketball Association team
  • The Taker/Tulsa, 1971 album by Waylon Jennings

Usage examples of "taker".

We have received word that our locathah brethren in the Shining Sea have allied with the Taker, an unfortunate choice that will affect us all.

It has been said that the Taker was there the day Sekolah set the first sahuagin free.

All agree that the Taker searched for love, for acceptance, for an end to the loneliness that filled him at being the one.

What she wanted from the Taker was the way she felt when she saw her reflection in his eyes.

When she returned, she found this woman in the bed she shared with the Taker, not one of the harem rooms.

The Taker pretended the woman put the shine in his eyes that he showed Umberlee.

The Taker brooded and banked his hatred for a thousand years and more.

The sheer savagery that had torn the great whale continued unabated, and the young sailor knew the sahuagin had eaten their fill of the whale when the Taker had slain it.

The Taker, however, has an army of sahuagin, morkoth, and koalinth at his beck and call that are already invading lands that can be used as staging arenas to attack Eadraal.

All that I am sure of at the moment is that it is some device the Taker had in his possession when Umberlee struck him down.

When enough have died, the Taker will call the victims back as drowned ones in his service.

The prophecies about the Taker creating a reunion of the peoples of Seros must come to pass first.

The Taker had planned too well, and the priests had not turned all of the drowned ones.

His attention was drawn to Iakhovas as the Taker swam for the surface.

The Taker grinned cruelly at her and a ruby beam leaped out from his golden eye.