Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sports The act or an instance of taking away the ball or puck from the team on the offensive, as by recovery of a fumbled football or by interception of a passed puck.
- noun The lesson or principle that one learns from a story or event. Used with the.
- noun A concession made by a labor union during contract negotiations; a giveback.
- noun Chiefly British A takeout restaurant.
- adjective Chiefly British Takeout.
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- adjective chiefly UK, of food To be
eaten off thepremises . - noun chiefly UK A
restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere. - noun chiefly UK A
meal bought to be eaten elsewhere. - noun golf The preliminary part of a golfer′s swing when the club is brought back away from the ball.
- noun US A
concession made by alabor union in the course ofnegotiations . - noun An
idea from atalk ,presentation , etc., that thelistener orreader shouldremember andconsider .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass)
- noun prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises
- noun a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures
Etymologies
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Examples
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But other than our love of adventure, the survey's main takeaway is that while Americans are getting smarter about safe sex they are still not thinking about protection as much as we should.
For Americans, variety, safety and perception are key when it comes to sex Katie Rogers 2010
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I think you're right about the circular nature of the discussion ... that was (sadly) my main takeaway from the first round of Shawn Elliot's Symposium, which I think is still a cool idea, and in a way it's kind of nice to see a discussion that is messy when internet entropy makes so much else so miniaturized ...
Tape Song SVGL 2009
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The main takeaway is damn, dude, you really should wear those things when the media is allowed inside.
John Beck has WWE belts in his locker Dan Steinberg 2010
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My main takeaway is that the source of the data or rather, controlling the source of the data becomes less and less important – what we now haveto contend with are dynamic displays that source their data from across the web.
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My main takeaway is that the source of the data or rather, controlling the source of the data becomes less and less important – what we now haveto contend with are dynamic displays that source their data from across the web.
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I think the takeaway is their greed for more no-bid freebees is more powerful than their desire to keep this lawsuit out of the courts.
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The simple takeaway is that, for all of the drama of Loscocco-gate, President Obama's visit, and the rest of it, we see a remarkably unchanged race.
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As we wrote at the time: The takeaway from the ad is unmistakable: Ron Johnson is different.
Russ Feingold puts up his own whiteboard ad Chris Cillizza 2010
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The third takeaway is really just a confirmation of something that has longed bothered me, which is that every time a large company passes a new cost on to a customer, I wonder what internal inefficiencies they're letting slide at the same time.
AT&T Sells You A Service They Don't Offer, Denies It, Bills You Anyway - The Consumerist 2009
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The other dark-humor takeaway is that texting provides a means to preserve your final words.
Video: Hard to stop texting b-cuz those msgs are so important! 2010
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