takeaway
pronunciation
How to pronounce takeaway in British English:
UK [ˈteɪkəweɪ]
How to pronounce takeaway in American English:
US [ˈtekəˌwe]
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- Noun:
- prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises
- a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures
- the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass)
Word Origin
- takeaway (adj.)
- also take-away, 1964 in reference to food-shops, from take (v.) + away. From 1970 as a noun.
Example
- 1. You don 't have to cook , but keep your local takeaway on speed dial .
- 2. Many of the apartments have no kitchens , forcing their impoverished residents to spend there meagre incomes on takeaway food .
- 3. It appears that we have enjoyed one takeaway meal too many with a quarter of adults in the uk now termed as obese .
- 4. He had spent his teenage years helping his father run a chinese takeaway in peterborough , where the family had settled from hong kong .
- 5. In 1999 fish friers served up more than 283 million meals a year making it the most popular takeaway among the british population .