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offtake

offtake verb: to take off; take away, remove.

Verb

offtake (third-person singular simple present offtakes, present participle offtaking, simple past offtook, past participle offtaken)

  1. (transitive) To take off; take away, remove.
    • Of brothers and bairns, where the brightest of earth-joys
      She had hitherto had: all the henchmen of Finn
      War had offtaken, save a handful remaining, […]1892, Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem, page 38
    • In this case also we are not informed what the range of water depths was; but, since all distributaries offtaking from this sixty-three miles length of canal were closed during the experiment, and since the capacity of the canal at the lower end was not more than half the capacity at its upper end...1917, Proceedings - West Pakistan Engineering Congress, volume 5, page 5
  2. (transitive) To take out or remove commodities from a market, usually through purchasing them.
    • Obviously, it would be desirable for the parties to the interim offtake agreement to offtake their physical volumes in proportion to their dividend participation.1973, Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy

Noun

offtake (countable and uncountable, plural offtakes)

  1. A point or channel of drainage or off-flow; offlet.
  2. The removal of oil (or an industrial chemical) from a storage facility.
  3. An act of taking off; specifically, the taking away or purchase of goods.
  4. Something taken off; a deduction.

Forms of offtake

Verb
third-person singular presentofftakes
present participleofftaking
pastofftook
past participleofftaken
Noun
pluralofftakes

Origin of offtake

From Middle English oftaken, equivalent to off- + take.

Words formed from offtake

Questions about offtake

What does offtake mean?
Offtake means to take off; take away, remove.
What part of speech is offtake?
Offtake can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of offtake?
The past tense of offtake is offtook.

Words near offtake in the dictionary

  1. offstanding
  2. offstands
  3. offstood
  4. offstream
  5. offsuit
  6. offtake
  7. offtaken
  8. offtaker
  9. offtakers
  10. offtakes
  11. offtaking

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