TAKING meaning: Acquiring possession or control over

We found 40 dictionaries that define the word Taking:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

taking: Merriam-Webster
taking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
taking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
taking: Collins English Dictionary
taking: Vocabulary.com
Taking, taking, taking: Wordnik
taking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
taking: Wiktionary
taking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
taking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
taking: Infoplease Dictionary
taking: Dictionary.com
taking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Taking (law), Taking, The Taking (album), The Taking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Taking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
taking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
taking: Rhymezone
Taking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
taking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
TAKING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
taking: FreeDictionary.org
taking: Mnemonic Dictionary
taking: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
taking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)

taking: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
taking: Legal dictionary
taking: Financial dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

taking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

taking: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
taking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

taking: Idioms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

Energy Terms (No longer online)
Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (taking)

▸ adjective:  Alluring; attractive.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Infectious; contagious.
▸ noun:  The act by which something is taken.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
▸ noun:  (in the plural, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).

Similar:

attractive, fetching, winning, picking, putting, takeing, takin, giving, bringing, getting, more...

Opposite:

giving, donating, returning, releasing, contributing

Types:

stealing, borrowing, lending, more...

Phrases:

taking place, taking care, taking up, taking advantage, taking on, more...

Adjectives:

risk, leave, note, turn, drug, worth, hostage, actual, history, careful, wrongful

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