Usually means: Assume something as given, unappreciated.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. take for granted: Merriam-Webster
  2. take for granted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take for granted: Collins English Dictionary
  4. take for granted: Vocabulary.com
  5. take for granted: Wiktionary
  6. take for granted: Dictionary.com
  7. take for granted: Rhymezone
  8. take for granted: FreeDictionary.org
  9. take for granted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. take for granted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. take for granted: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. take for granted: Legal dictionary
  3. take for granted: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take for granted: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take for granted: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take for granted: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take for granted: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (take for granted)

verb:  (transitive, of a thing) To assume something to be true without verification or proof.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic, especially of a person) To give little attention to or to underestimate the value of; to fail to appreciate, especially something one has grown heavily accustomed to; not to value or care for appropriately, out of the assumption that the person or thing not valued cannot be lost.

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