Dictionary

taker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈteɪkɚ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English takere, equivalent to take + -er.

Meanings

1. One who takes something.
   • An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent. 2008 March 2, Bruce Barcott, “The Higher They Climb”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2018:
   • The hostage taker decided to surrender to the police.
   • The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.
   • She is known as quite a risk taker.
2. A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.
   • I don't want to be a relationship with you anymore - you are too much of a taker.
3. One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.
   • Barely a decade ago, the notion that land should be managed in order to ensure planetary wellbeing had few takers among farmers whose raison d'etre was to fill human bellies at the lowest possible cost. But this is the proposition that is now poised to determine the future of farming. 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023:
   • Are there any takers for helping me clean the garage this weekend?
   • I'm selling handmade postcards—any takers?
4. (obsolete) A nipper or claw of a scorpion.
   • The ſixt is like a Crabbe, & this is called by Elianus a flamant Scorpion, it is of a great body, and hath tonges and takers very ſolid and ſtrong, like the Gramuell or Creuiſh, & is therefore thought to take the beginning from that fiſh. 1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Scorpion”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 223:

Forms

Antonyms

accorder · renderer · returner · granter · giver · assigner · furnisher · bequeather · bestower · deliverer · presenter · giver · supplier

Deriveds

test-taker · taker-backer · numbertaker · hostage-taker · polltaker · thief-taker · painstaker · piss-taker · liberty taker · taker-off · time-taker · check-taker · breathtaker · bribetaker · oathtaker · wife-taker · risktaker · stocktaker · price taker · tolltaker · furtaker · prizetaker · lifetaker · drugtaker · double taker · ruletaker · notetaker · caretaker · worktaker · hostage taker · wicket taker · wagetaker · copytaker

Hypernyms

recipient

Hyponyms

confiscator · annexer · hostage-taker · captor · thief · bribetaker

Relateds

take · taking · get · receive

Synonyms

taker · appropriator

Translations (4)

pl biorca (One who takes something) · ang numa (One who takes something) · pl biorca (Translations) · ar آخِذ (One who takes something)