taker
US/ˈteɪkɚ/
taker noun: one who takes something.
Noun
taker (plural takers)
- One who takes something.
- She is known as quite a risk taker.
- The hostage taker decided to surrender to the police.
- A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.
- I don't want to be a relationship with you anymore - you are too much of a taker.
- One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.
- Are there any takers for helping me clean the garage this weekend?
- I'm selling handmade postcards—any takers?
- A nipper or claw of a scorpion.
- The ſixt is like a Crabbe, & this is called by Elianus a flamant Scorpion, it is of a great body, and hath tonges and takers very ſolid and ſtrong, like the Gramuell or Creuiſh, & is therefore thought to take the beginning from that fiſh.1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Scorpion”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 223
taker meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
taker in Hindi
- लेने वाला
taker in Urdu
- لینے والا, پکڑنے والا, تسخیر کرنے والا
taker in Malayalam
- എടുക്കുന്നയാൾ
taker in Kannada
- ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವವನು
More languagesFewer languages
- taker in Arabic
- آخِذ ʔāḵiḏ
Examples of taker in a sentence
- The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.
- An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent.2008 March 2, Bruce Barcott, “The Higher They Climb”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2018:
Synonyms of taker
Antonyms
Forms of taker
| plural | takers |
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Origin of taker
From Middle English takere, equivalent to take + -er.
Words formed from taker
- breathtaker
- bribetaker
- caretaker
- check-taker
- copytaker
- double taker
- drugtaker
- furtaker
- hostage-taker
- hostage taker
- liberty taker
- lifetaker
- notetaker
- numbertaker
- oathtaker
- painstaker
- piss-taker
- polltaker
- price taker
- prizetaker
- risktaker
- ruletaker
- stocktaker
- taker-backer
- taker-off
- test-taker
- thief-taker
- time-taker
- tolltaker
- wagetaker
- wicket taker
- wife-taker
- worktaker
Words that rhyme with taker
6 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about taker
- What does taker mean?
- Taker means one who takes something.
- What is taker in Hindi?
- Taker in Hindi is लेने वाला. See Taker meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use taker in a sentence?
- The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.
- What part of speech is taker?
- Taker is a noun.
- How do you pronounce taker?
- Taker is pronounced /ˈteɪkɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of taker?
- The plural of taker is takers.
Words near taker in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: taker (page history and authors); taker (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taker (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); taker (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); taker (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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