Usually means: Understand and respond to suggestion.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. take a hint: Merriam-Webster
  2. take a hint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take a hint: Wiktionary
  4. take a hint: Dictionary.com
  5. Take a Hint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. take a hint: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take a hint: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take a hint: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take a hint: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take a hint)

▸ verb:  To understand an indirect suggestion, and to act on it

Similar:
take the hint, take on board, take, give someone to understand, take heed, allude, read between the lines, act upon, take to heart, act on, more...

Opposite:
miss point, be oblivious, be dense, not get it, be clueless

Phrases:
cant take a hint, more...

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Similar:
take the hint, take on board, take, give someone to understand, take heed, allude, read between the lines, act upon, take to heart, act on, more...

Opposite:
miss point, be oblivious, be dense, not get it, be clueless

Phrases:
cant take a hint, more...



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