TAKINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does takings mean? 

• TAKINGS (noun)
  The noun TAKINGS has 1 sense:

1. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

  Familiarity information: TAKINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings; yield

Context example:

the average return was about 5%

Hypernyms ("takings" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "takings"):

economic rent; rent (the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions)

payback (financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment))

 Context examples 

My gross takings amount to £ 27 10s.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I seized my coat, which was weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from the leather bag in which I carried my takings.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London could earn £ 700 a year—which is less than my average takings—but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)