Meaning

One who takes something..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who takes something.
2. A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.
3. One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.
4. (obsolete) A nipper or claw of a scorpion.

Example Sentences

She is known as quite a risk taker.

The hostage taker decided to surrender to the police.

The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.

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.

I don't want to be a relationship with you anymore - you are too much of a taker.

Are there any takers for helping me clean the garage this weekend?

I'm selling handmade postcards—any takers?

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.

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