takeout

• take-out

Deverbal from take out.

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takeout (not comparable)

1. (Canada, US) (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.

• takeaway (chiefly Britain, Australia and New Zealand)
• carryout, to go (Scotland and some dialects in the U.S. & Canada)
• takeaways (New Zealand)
• grab and go

takeout (countable and uncountable, plural takeouts)

1. (Canada, US, Philippines) Food purchased from a takeaway.
2. (curling) A stone that hits another stone, removing it from play, a takeout shot.
3. (bridge) A double of an opponent's bid, intended to invite one's partner to compete in the auction, rather than to penalise one's opponents.
4. (television) A detailed news segment.
   • 1994, Penn Kimball, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Downsizing the news: network cutbacks in the nation's capital (page 19)

     Takeouts on important running topics in the news are one way to add a valuable dimension to the evening news. One consequence, however, has been that there are fewer minutes available on the broadcast for hard news out of Washington.

• (food) carryout (US)
• (food) takeaway

• → Japanese: テイクアウト (teikuauto), テークアウト (tēkuauto)
• → Korean: 테이크아웃 (teikeuaut)

• outtake
• take out

• outtake