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what it takes

what it takes noun: everything that is required, especially skill or endurance.

Noun

what it takes (uncountable)

  1. (US, idiomatic) Everything that is required, especially skill or endurance.
    • You don't know what it takes to succeed at competitive frisbee.
    • She's precocious, and she knows just / What it takes to make a pro blush1974, Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, “Bette Davis Eyes”, in Mistaken Identity, performed by Kim Carnes, published 1981

what it takes meaning in Bengali

what it takes in Bengali

প্রয়োজনীয় সবকিছু, সহনশীলতা

Questions about what it takes

What does what it takes mean?
What it takes means everything that is required, especially skill or endurance.
What is what it takes in Bengali?
What it takes in Bengali is প্রয়োজনীয় সবকিছু, সহনশীলতা. See What it takes meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is what it takes?
What it takes is a noun.

Words near what it takes in the dictionary

  1. what is your phone number
  2. what is your problem
  3. what it be
  4. what it do
  5. what it is
  6. what it takes
  7. what kind of music do you like
  8. what languages do you speak
  9. what next
  10. what nonsense
  11. what not

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