TAKING definition: the act of a person or thing that takes. See examples of taking used in a sentence.

Many of our lives are centered on taking care of the needs of everyone around us aside from ourselves. It wanders about a third of the time while a person is reading, talking with other people, or taking care …

1. Capturing interest; fetching: a taking smile. 2. Contagious; catching. Used of an infectious disease.

take, seize, grasp, clutch, snatch, grab mean to get hold of by or as if by catching up with the hand. take is a general term applicable to any manner of getting something into one's possession or control.

Ways to take include receiving, removing, capturing, picking something up, or being seized by something. Take has many, many senses and has found its way into many English expressions.

They prefer the slick repetition of cliché to the taking of risks in thought or language.

The Taking, a 2003 novel by J. D. Landis The Taking (novel), a 2004 novel by Dean Koontz The Taking, a 2004 short film directed by Matt Eskandari The Taking (album), a 2011 studio album by Loaded …

taking, + n. Government an action by the federal government, as a regulatory ruling, that imposes a restriction on the use of private property for which the owner must be compensated.

Taking definition: That captures interest; attractive; winning.

May 16, 2025 · (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). quotations