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take-up

take-up noun: the act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.

Noun

take-up (countable and uncountable, plural take-ups)

  1. The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
  2. (machinery) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
  3. Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.); uptake.
    • the take-up of benefits by the unemployed
    • As a first step, Mode Shift Revenue Support (MSRS) funding should be expanded, to ensure a higher take-up of unused freight paths in today's timetable and to help shape a sustainable path for multi-modal UK logistics.2023 July 26, Jim Steer, “Where rail can win modal shift”, in RAIL, number 988, page 40

take-up meaning in Tamil

take-up in Tamil

இழுத்தல், இழுப்பு

Forms of take-up

pluraltake-ups

Origin of take-up

Deverbal from take up.

Questions about take-up

What does take-up mean?
Take-up means the act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
What is take-up in Tamil?
Take-up in Tamil is இழுத்தல், இழுப்பு. See Take-up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is take-up?
Take-up is a noun.
What is the plural of take-up?
The plural of take-up is take-ups.

Words near take-up in the dictionary

  1. take-overs
  2. take-that game
  3. take-that games
  4. take-under
  5. take-unders
  6. take-up
  7. take-ups
  8. takeable
  9. takeaway
  10. takeaways
  11. takeback

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Adapted from Wiktionary: take-up (page history and authors); take-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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