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taken

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for taken.

Editorial note

The EFF and other organizations have taken the company to task for this devious bait and switch move.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of taken gathered in one view.

adjective

Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.

adjective

(informal) In a serious romantic relationship.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for taken.

Example sentences

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The EFF and other organizations have taken the company to task for this devious bait and switch move.

2

It should be taken with a grain of salt until further research on this type of thing is done.

3

We've taken Jason Fried's TED talk [1] to heart and built an entirely distributed team, which includes even our CEO.

4

Slice was founded by Stanford GSB entrepreneurs who have built, sold, and taken multiple companies public.

5

The point is well taken, but don't forget that for most people that downside of increased cognitive pressure goes away after a few days or weeks of regular vim usage.

6

I have recently taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India.

7

Any landscape photo taken with the rule of thirds will have this problem.

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You'd have to be insane to think it's in your interest when your money is taken by force and used as some others somewhere see fit.

9

Masses are served stuff, stuff is marketed to the masses, stuff is taken away or left to wither so they get used to some new stuff, etc.

10

Even in the good subs I followed the hivemind has taken over.

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> For the 6 that would have taken you for $10k less, that sounds like negotiation.

12

The company is growing quickly (we're looking for roles in sales, account management, QA and support as well as development) and we've taken on funding from a group of investors to help us expand.

Quote examples

1

"The Internet" is taken for granted and is so down in the weeds for most people that they don't realize they're using it.

2

How could they have thought of 'X'?!" then I google "soylent X" and find an extremely detained post explaining how they're taken 'X' in to account.

3

I've read that this is how NYC has "taken care of their homeless problem": they simply let the homeless die, which is quite easy to do in NYC during the winter by forcing the homeless to sleep outdoors, where the weather is much more deadly than it ever gets in San Francisco.

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I've personally taken to sliding my cursor past the top edge of the page to see if the "subscribe to our mailing list" dialog appears, in some cases bailing on the article completely just because it's not valuable enough to me to bother after that affront.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use taken in a sentence?

The EFF and other organizations have taken the company to task for this devious bait and switch move.

What does taken mean?

Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.

What part of speech is taken?

taken is commonly used as adjective.