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offtakes

offtakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of offtake.

offtakes is the plural of offtake.

Meaning of offtake

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
  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

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Questions about offtakes

What is offtakes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Offtakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of offtake.

Words near offtakes in the dictionary

  1. offsuit
  2. offtake
  3. offtaken
  4. offtaker
  5. offtakers
  6. offtakes
  7. offtaking
  8. offthrew
  9. offthrow
  10. offthrowing
  11. offthrown

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