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Definition of Takings
1. Noun. The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property. "The average return was about 5%"
Generic synonyms: Income
Specialized synonyms: Economic Rent, Rent, Payback
Derivative terms: Return, Take, Yield
Definition of Takings
1. Noun. The cash or money received (taken) by a shop or other business; receipts. ¹
2. Noun. (plural of taking) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Takings
1. taking [n] - See also: taking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Takings
Literary usage of Takings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1762)
"(5) And that the takings be made in convenient and anee ... (6) And that the
takings and buyings be made in fuch No purvey- p|aces ..."
2. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"... shall appear that there were more than three takings, or that more than the
space of six months elapsed between the first and the last of such takings; ..."
3. Facts about the South; Promise of Its Prosperity in the Light of the Past by Richard Hathaway Edmonds (1907)
"The consumption of American cotton in Southern mills and the "takings" in Northern
mills show that in the 10-year period ending with 1896 the ..."
4. Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing by Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Thomas Key, William Hew Coltman (1897)
"... with the GOODWILL and takings of his BUSINESS, to ' the trustees of a LOAN
Society, the money to be repaid by WEEKLY INSTALMENTS. ..."
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