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take-in

NOUN
  1. the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone

How To Use take-in In A Sentence

  • I thought at the time," said Mr. Branghton, "that three shillings was an exorbitant price for a place in the gallery: but as we'd been asked so much at the other doors, why I paid it without many words; but, then, to be sure, thinks I, it can never be like any other gallery, we shall see some crinkum-crankum or other for our money; but I find it's as arrant a take-in as ever I met with. Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
  • The system of take-in and repatriation has transformed into an administrative compelling and punishing measure which limits the citizens' personal freedom.
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