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1. Of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises
   "takeout pizza"; "the takeout counter"
   - take-away [Brit]

1. [N. Amer] Prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises
   - takeout food [N. Amer], takeaway [Brit]
    
2. (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit

1. Cause to leave
   - move out, remove
    
2. Remove from its packing
   - unpack
    
3. Take out or remove
   "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
   - take away
    
4. Obtain by legal or official process
   "take out a licence"; "take out a patent"
    
5. Make a date
   - ask out, invite out
    
6. Remove something from a container or an enclosed space
    
7. [N. Amer] Purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
   - buy food
    
8. Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
   - withdraw, draw, draw off
    
9. Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
   - draw, pull, pull out, get out
    
10. Take liquid out of a container or well
    - draw
     
11. Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
    "take out a splinter"
    - extract, pull out, pull, pull up, draw out
     
12. [N. Amer] Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
    "We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook"
    - take away
     
13. Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
    - excerpt, extract
     
14. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted
    - exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit

Derived forms: taken out, taking out, takeouts, took out, takes out

See also: portable, take

Type of: bespeak, bid, bidding, buy, call for, choose, convenience food, do away with, eat, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of, obtain, pick out, purchase, quest, remove, request, select, take, take away, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Take out