Usually means: Remove or ascend rapidly; depart.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word take off:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. take off: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. take off, take off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. take off: Vocabulary.com
  5. Take-Off, Take-off, take-off: Wordnik
  6. take-off, take off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. take-off, take off: Wiktionary
  8. take-off, take off: Dictionary.com
  9. take-off: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Take Off (2PM song), Take Off (Chipmunk song), Take Off (Folks EP), Take Off (WayV EP), Take Off, Take off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Take-off: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. take-off: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. take off: Rhymezone
  14. Take-off, take off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. take off: Phrasal Verb Page
  16. take-off, take off: Free Dictionary
  17. take off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. take off: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Take off: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. take-off, take off: Legal dictionary
  5. Take off: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Take-off, take off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take-off, take off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take off: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. take off, take off, take off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Take off: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Take Off: Backgammon
  2. Take-off: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Take off: Construction Glossary
  4. Glossary of Landscape Irrigation Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take off)

verb:  (transitive) To remove.
verb:  (transitive) To imitate somebody, often in a satirical manner.
verb:  (intransitive, of an aircraft or spacecraft) To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.
verb:  (intransitive) To become successful, to flourish.
verb:  (intransitive) To depart.
verb:  (transitive) To quantify.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, dated) To take drugs; to inject drugs.
verb:  (transitive, slang, dated) To steal (something) or rob (someone).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To swallow.
noun:  Nonstandard spelling of takeoff. [The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.]

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