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TAKE HOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does take home mean?
• TAKE HOME (verb)
The verb TAKE HOME has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: TAKE HOME used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Earn as a salary or wage
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
bring home; take home
Context example:
How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?
Hypernyms (to "take home" is one way to...):
bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
And the servants gave her some of the rich meats, which she put into her basket to take home.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Policies aimed at removing sweets and crisps from checkouts could lead to a dramatic reduction in the amount of unhealthy food purchased to eat ‘on the go’ and a significant reduction in that purchased to take home, suggests new research led by the University of Cambridge.
(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)
Then the little man began to chuckle at the thought of having the poor child, to take home with him to his hut in the woods; and he cried out, Now, lady, what is my name?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I said to myself: 'There's the kind of man you'd like to take home and introduce to your mother and sister.'
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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