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take-home

take-home noun: an examination or assignment to be completed outside the classroom. Also the ellipsis of take-home pay.

Noun

take-home (countable and uncountable, plural take-homes)

  1. An examination or assignment to be completed outside the classroom.
  2. A supply of methadone that someone under treatment is allowed to take home instead of coming in to a treatment center every day.

Adjective

take-home (not comparable)

  1. Designed or made to be taken home.
    • Get creative with fun children's take-home craft activities.
  2. That is net and belongs to the person who will take it home (keep it).
    • take-home percentage

Also used as

take-home is also the ellipsis of take-home pay.

Forms of take-home

pluraltake-homes
alternative formtakehome

Words formed from take-home

Phrases with take-home

Questions about take-home

What does take-home mean?
Take-home means an examination or assignment to be completed outside the classroom.
What part of speech is take-home?
Take-home can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of take-home?
The plural of take-home is take-homes.

Words near take-home in the dictionary

  1. take-all
  2. take-and-bake
  3. take-away
  4. take-aways
  5. take-backsies
  6. take-home
  7. take-home pay
  8. take-home vehicle
  9. take-home vehicles
  10. take-homes
  11. take-in

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