What does Takeaway mean?

Definitions for Takeaway
ˈteɪk əˌweɪtake·away

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. takeout, takeout food, takeawaynoun

    prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises

    "in England they call takeout food `takeaway'"

  2. takeawaynoun

    a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures

  3. takeawaynoun

    the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass)

Wiktionary

  1. takeawaynoun

    a restaurant that sells takeaway food

    If you're hungry, there's a takeaway just around the corner.

  2. takeawaynoun

    a meal that was bought from a takeaway

    I fancy an Indian takeaway tonight.

  3. takeawaynoun

    a concession made by a labor union in the course of negotiations

  4. takeawaynoun

    an idea to be taken away by the listener after a talk or presentation

  5. takeawayadjective

    to be eaten off the premises

Wikipedia

  1. takeaway

    A take-out or takeout (U.S., Canada and the Philippines); carry-out or to-go (Scotland and some dialects in the U.S. and Canada); takeaway (England, Wales, Australia, Lebanon, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and occasionally in North America); takeaways (India, New Zealand); grab-n-go; and parcel (Bangladesh, Pakistan) is a prepared meal or other food items, purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat elsewhere. A concept found in many ancient cultures, take-out food is common worldwide, with a number of different cuisines and dishes on offer.

ChatGPT

  1. takeaway

    Takeaway generally refers to a key point, idea, or lesson that is to be learned or understood from something, such as an event, experience, discussion, or book. It highlights the most important or central aspect. Additionally, in British English, it also refers to a restaurant or shop that sells food ready to be eaten but not on the premises, or to the food sold by such establishments.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Takeaway in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Takeaway in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Takeaway in a Sentence

  1. Stas Malavin:

    The takeaway is that a multicellular organism can be frozen and stored as such for thousands of years and then return back to life -- a dream of many fiction writers.

  2. Scott Evans:

    I think the most important takeaway is that we now have a record stretching back 550 million years, demonstrating that animals respond to changing environmental conditions, often resulting in major extinction events, even though the causes of today’s environmental change and responses of animals may be different, the fact that such change in the past has been shown over and over again to lead to major extinction events is a crucial one when considering what actions we should take to mitigate the course of our current human driven climate change.

  3. Carvalho Resende:

    What the results revealed here is that it's not necessarily an issue related to a specific country or region, but that it's really a global issue, when we see where the 10 sites that have become carbon sources are, they are scattered all around the world, so the takeaway of the findings is that climate action is needed at a global level.

  4. Phil Dalton:

    It's a niche opportunity with a limited lifetime but that's what the marketplace needs right now - more takeaway capacity.

  5. Mike Dominguez:

    Individuals breaking laws are not being held accountable because of this vaccine mandate is the ultimate takeaway here, hopefully this idea doesn’t give people still technically breaking a law entitlement to where these individuals feel emboldened to commit other crimes because of the lack of prosecution on these offenses.

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