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See also: tåker and -taker

English

Etymology

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#TAKER Category:English terms derived from Middle English#TAKER takere, equivalent to take +‎ -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#TAKER.

Pronunciation

Noun

taker (plural takers)Category:English lemmas#TAKER Category:English nouns#TAKER Category:English countable nouns#TAKER Category:English entries with incorrect language header#TAKER Category:Pages with entries#TAKER Category:Pages with 5 entries#TAKER

One who takes something.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:taker

Antonyms: see Thesaurus:giver

She is known as quite a risk taker.Category:English terms with usage examples#TAKER

The hostage taker decided to surrender to the police.Category:English terms with usage examples#TAKER

The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.Category:English terms with usage examples#TAKER
- 2008 March 2, Bruce Barcott, “The Higher They Climb”, in The New York Times‎:
  An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent.
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A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.
I don't want to be a relationship with you anymore - you are too much of a taker.Category:English terms with usage examples#TAKER
One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.
Are there any takers for helping me clean the garage this weekend?Category:English terms with usage examples#TAKER

I'm selling handmade postcards—any takers?Category:English terms with usage examples#TAKER
- 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 July 2023:
  Barely a decade ago, the notion that land should be managed in order to ensure planetary wellbeing had few takers among farmers whose raison d'etre was to fill human bellies at the lowest possible cost. But this is the proposition that is now poised to determine the future of farming.
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(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#TAKER) A nipper or claw of a scorpion.
- 1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Scorpion”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 223:
  The ſixt is like a Crabbe, & this is called by Elianus a flamant Scorpion, it is of a great body, and hath tonges and takers very ſolid and ſtrong, like the Gramuell or Creuiſh, & is therefore thought to take the beginning from that fiſh.
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