take off

take off
1) PHRASAL VERB When an aeroplane takes off, it leaves the ground and starts flying.

[V P] We eventually took off at 11 o'clock and arrived in Venice at 1.30.

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2) PHRASAL VERB If something such as a product, an activity, or someone's career takes off, it suddenly becomes very successful.

[V P] They need to expand the number of farmers who are involved if the scheme's going to really take off...

[V P] In 1944, he met Edith Piaf, and his career took off.

3) PHRASAL VERB If you take off or take yourself off, you go away, often suddenly and unexpectedly.

[V P] He took off at once and headed back to the motel...

[V pron-refl P] He took himself off to Mexico.

4) PHRASAL VERB If you take a garment off, you remove it.

[V n P] He wouldn't take his hat off...

[V P n (not pron)] She took off her spectacles.

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5) PHRASAL VERB If you take time off, you obtain permission not to go to work for a short period of time.

[V n P] Mitchel's schedule had not permitted him to take time off...

[V n P n] She took two days off work.

6) PHRASAL VERB If you take someone off, you make them go with you to a particular place, especially when they do not want to go there.

[V n P prep/adv] The police stopped her and took her off to a police station...

[V n P prep/adv] Martinez was taken off to jail.

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7) PHRASAL VERB If you take someone off, you imitate them and the things that they do and say, in such a way that you make other people laugh. [mainly BRIT]

[V P n (not pron)] Mike can take off his father to perfection. [Also V n P]

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8) PHRASAL VERB If something such as a service or entertainment is taken off, it is withdrawn so that people can no longer use it or watch it.

[be V-ed P] We would very much deplore it if a popular programme were taken off as a result of political pressure...

[V n P n] The network took it off the air in 1971. [Also V n P, V P n (not pron)]

9) → See also takeoff

English dictionary. 2008.

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