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taken at face value

taken at face value is the past participle of take at face value.

Meaning of take at face value

Verb

take at face value (third-person singular simple present takes at face value, present participle taking at face value, simple past took at face value, past participle taken at face value)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) Accept as presented, without question or further investigation.
    • Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value.1991, Douglas Coupland, “New Zealand Gets Nuked, Too”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 68
    Antonyms:
    take with a grain of salt, read between the lines

Questions about taken at face value

What is taken at face value the past participle of?
Taken at face value is the past participle of take at face value.

Words near taken at face value in the dictionary

  1. taken air
  2. taken aloft
  3. taken an l
  4. taken apart
  5. taken at advantage
  6. taken at face value
  7. taken attendance
  8. taken away
  9. taken away from
  10. taken back
  11. taken bread and salt

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