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takeaway /ˈteɪkəweɪ /noun1British A restaurant or shop selling cooked food to be eaten elsewhere: a fast-food takeaway [as modifier]: a takeaway pizza...- Almost half the weight of some chicken sold through restaurants and takeaways is made up of water and food additives, according to an investigation.
- He works seven nights a week delivering food for a Chinese restaurant and a pizza takeaway.
- Currently in the High Street there are two Indian takeaways, two fish and chip shops, a Chinese takeaway and a pizza takeaway.
1.1A meal or dish bought from a shop or restaurant to be eaten elsewhere: he phoned for a takeaway [mass noun]: he is happy to eat Chinese takeaway...- Many of today's young people, existing on takeaways or meals taken out of the freezer and bunged in the microwave, complain about the cost of things.
- But despite feeding ready meals and takeaways to their children parents are eating far less of them - on average just 64 ready meals each a year.
- About once a fortnight, I eat a fatty takeaway for dinner: fish and chips, Chinese, kebabs.
2A key fact, point, or idea to be remembered, typically one emerging from a discussion or meeting: the main takeaway for me is that we need to continue to communicate all the things we’re doing for our customers [as modifier]: the takeaway message...- The most important takeaway is this: they repeatedly did things that felt like huge risks, that challenged the status quo and that seemed, on their face, to give too much power to their audience.
- One of our takeaways from the global financial crisis is that it is very important for rating agencies to be transparent about the assumptions that go into the analysis.
- The key takeaways from this seem to be that 'learning how to hire' comes with experience, a little theory from books and blogs, surrounding yourself with mentors you can learn from and making a few mistakes along the way.
3 Golf another term for backswing. many golfers ruin the swing with a poor takeaway...- Under Harmon, Pavin has worked to lose his distinctive habit of lifting and fanning the club open on the takeaway, producing a backswing that was too narrow and too long.
- To create a consistent tempo, it helps to have a little movement before the takeaway, such as a waggle of the clubhead back and forth above the ball.
- Recently, we've smoothed out some minor kinks she had in her takeaway and the top of the backswing.
4US (In football and hockey) an act of regaining the ball or puck from the opposing team. Rhymesbreakaway |