Definition of Take home

1. Verb. Earn as a salary or wage. "How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?"

Exact synonyms: Bring Home
Generic synonyms: Bring In, Clear, Earn, Gain, Make, Pull In, Realise, Realize, Take In

Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Home

take effect
take exception
take exception to
take fire
take five
take flight
take for
take for a spin
take for granted
take form
take guard
take heart
take heed
take hold
take hold of
take home (current term)
take hostage
take ill
take in
take in charge
take in vain
take in water
take into account
take inventory
take issue
take issue with
take it away
take it easy
take it from me
take it in turns

Literary usage of Take home

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Papers on Maritime Legislation: With a Translation of the German Mercantile by Ernest Emil Wendt (1888)
"LAW RESPECTING THE OBLIGATION OF GERMAN MERCHANT VESSELS TO take home DISTRESSED SEAMEN OF DECEMBER 27 ..."

2. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1884)
"... let him assuredly know and understand that he most of all needs to take home its warning, and to yield to its tender but weighty reproach. S. Cox. ..."

3. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands: In the South Pacific Ocean by William Mariner, John Joseph Martin (1818)
"... (about a mile farther along the beach,) which the women put round their necks or take home to the mooa, and present to their lovers or their friends, ..."

4. Approval and Monitoring of Narcotic Treatment Programs: A Guide on the Roles by Lynne C. McArthur, Yvonne Goldsberry (1998)
"(iv) Take-home medication (A) Take-home medication may be given only to a patient who, in the reasonable clinical judgment of the program physician, ..."

5. Evaluating Capacity Development: Experiences from Research and Development by Douglas Horton (2003)
"Take-Home Messages Use of evaluation results and processes does not come automatically. It must be planned and cultivated throughout the evaluation process. ..."

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