offtaken
offtaken is the past participle of offtake.
Meaning of offtake
Verb
offtake (third-person singular simple present offtakes, present participle offtaking, simple past offtook, past participle offtaken)
- 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
- Of brothers and bairns, where the brightest of earth-joys
- 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
Questions about offtaken
- What is offtaken the past participle of?
- Offtaken is the past participle of offtake.
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