taker

See also: tåker and -taker

English

Etymology

From Middle English takere, equivalent to take +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈteɪkɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

taker (plural takers)

1. One who takes something.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:taker

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:giver

   She is known as quite a risk taker.

   The hostage taker decided to surrender to the police.

   The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.

   • 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.

2. 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.

3. One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.

   Are there any takers for helping me clean the garage this weekend?

   I'm selling handmade postcards—any takers?

   • 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.

4. (obsolete) 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.

Derived terms

• check-taker
• double taker
• hostage taker
• hostage-taker
• liberty taker
• piss-taker
• price taker
• taker-backer
• taker-off
• test-taker
• thief-taker
• time-taker
• wicket taker
• wife-taker

Related terms

• taking

Translations

One who takes something

Arabic: آخِذ (ar) m (ʔāḵiḏ) Old English: *numa Polish: biorca (pl) m

Translations

Polish: biorca (pl) m

See also

• get
• receive

Anagrams

• Akter, tarek, karet, trake, kerat-, Atrek

Apatani

Noun

taker

1. star

References

• P. T. Abraham, Apatani-English-Hindi Dictionary (1987)

Cebuano

Etymology

Shortening of takirub.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧ker

Noun

taker

1. a minx

Adjective

taker

1. minxish

Narua

Noun

takér

1. star

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *taikur. Cognates include Old English tācor and Old High German zeihhur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːker/

Noun

tāker m

1. brother-in-law

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN