Alluring; attractive. / (obsolete) Infectious; contagious.

(transitive) To absorb or comprehend. / (transitive) To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home. / (transitive) To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.

plural of taking

To acquire, bring in, or introduce. / (idiomatic) To begin to have or exhibit. / (idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility for. / (idiomatic) To attempt to fight, compete with, or engage with.

A fraud or deception.

To regard as. / To consider mistakenly. / (colloquial) To defraud; to rip off.

(of a marine region) Under a level of protection where nobody is permitted to remove any fish or other organisms.

present participle of take on

(informal) Corrupt; receiving bribes or other improper payments.

present participle of take in