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TAKE OFF definition: 1. If an aircraft takes off, it begins to fly. 2. to suddenly become successful: 3. to suddenly…. Learn more.
TAKE SOMETHING OFF definition: 1. to remove something, especially clothes: 2. to spend time away from your work: 3. If an…. Learn more.
1. a. : a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket. b. : an action of starting out. c. : a rapid rise in activity, growth, or popularity. an economic takeoff. 2. : an imitation especially in the way of caricature. 3. a. : a spot at which one takes off. b.
If you take someone off, you make them go with you to a particular place, especially when they do not want to go there. The police stopped her and took her off to a police station. [ V n P prep/adv ]
take something off something. to remove an amount of money or a number of marks, points, etc. in order to reduce the total. The manager took $10 off the bill. That experience took ten years off my life (= made me feel ten years older).
a piece of acting or writing, etc. that copies the way a particular person speaks or behaves, or the way something is done, usually to entertain other people: It was the best takeoff of the mayor that I have ever seen. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
take off. 1. phrasal verb. When an airplane takes off, it leaves the ground and starts flying. We eventually took off at 11 o'clock and arrived in Juneau at 1:30. 2. phrasal verb. If something such as a product, an activity, or someone's career takes off, it suddenly becomes very successful. In 1944, he met Edith Piaf, and his career took off.
