Visa, founded in 1958, is also something of a taker rather than a maker.
In the world of Fox News, however, Greenslate is typical—a lazy, entitled "taker" who deserves to lose his benefits.
Having a job on an auto assembly line makes you a maker, not a taker, and Romney and the Republicans forgot that.
Yesterday afternoon, David tweeted that he was a maker and a taker too.
"Then Findelkind was a rogue and a vagabond," said the taker of tolls.
All water taken may be hot or cold, according to the fancy of the taker.
Charles Wilbraham was no taker of human life, Henry felt assured.
An oath obligeth not in the sense of the imposer, but the taker's.
Every taker of a ticket will receive a coupon for our great 1000 lottery.
All these neighbors had to then follow the trail of the cow to its taker, or pay 30d.
1650s, "that which is taken in payment," from take (v.). Sense of "money taken in" by a single performance, etc., is from 1931. Movie-making sense is recorded from 1927. Criminal sense of "money acquired by theft" is from 1888. The verb sense of "to cheat, defraud" is from 1920. On the take "amenable to bribery" is from 1930.
late Old English tacan, from a Scandinavian source (e.g. Old Norse taka "take, grasp, lay hold," past tense tok, past participle tekinn; Swedish ta, past participle tagit), from Proto-Germanic *tækanan (cf. Middle Low German tacken, Middle Dutch taken, Gothic tekan "to touch"), of uncertain origin, perhaps originally meaning "to touch."
Gradually replaced Middle English nimen as the verb for "to take," from Old English niman, from the usual West Germanic *nem- root (cf. German nehmen, Dutch nemen; see nimble). OED calls it "one of the elemental words of the language;" take up alone has 55 varieties of meaning in that dictionary's 2nd print edition. Basic sense is "to lay hold of," which evolved to "accept, receive" (as in take my advice) c.1200; "absorb" (she can take a punch) c.1200; "to choose, select" (take the long way home) late 13c.; "to make, obtain" (take a shower) late 14c.; "to become affected by" (take sick) c.1300.
Take five is 1929, from the approximate time it takes to smoke a cigarette. Take it easy first recorded 1880; take the plunge "act decisively" is from 1876; take the rap "accept (undeserved) punishment" is from 1930. Phrase take it or leave it is recorded from 1897.
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A person who accepts a bet, challenge, offer, etc: I dared them all but got no takers (1810+)
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[the third noun sense's dated example refers to a portion of reporter's copy set in type]