The or an act of taking. / Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.

(transitive) To seize or capture. / (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

(idiomatic) To adapt to; to learn, grasp or master. / (idiomatic) To enter; to go into or move towards. / (idiomatic) To begin, as a new habit or practice. / (idiomatic, of persons) To be attracted to.

(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.

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.

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

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, it. / to start doing / to suppose / to reluctantly accept or believe; to acquiesce