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any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool - the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
How To Use take-up In A Sentence
- This step should help to allay fears and boost public confidence and take-up of online services. Times, Sunday Times
- Despite McKenzie's bullish predictions about take-up, the switch from NT to Windows 2000 is likely to be a gradual one.
- Child Benefit is the only benefit that carries automatic entitlement, and this accounts for the virtual 100% take-up of this benefit.
- Alasdair Morgan, the committee convener, said: ‘The idea is to see how quickly broadband is rolling out, whether it needs action to speed it up and what is the rate of take-up.’
- After looming, the warp, together with the healds and reed, are taken to the loom where the warp is then gaited, (i.e. the healds are connected to the treadle levers and to the reversing motion; the reed is secured in position under the sley-cap; and the warp sheet is straightened, tensioned and tied-in to a cloth fent attached to the take-up system). Chapter 6
- This step should help to allay fears and boost public confidence and take-up of online services. Times, Sunday Times
- The low take-up of school dinners appears to have resulted in a service that is uneconomic. Times, Sunday Times
- We haven't seen the latest figures for working families tax credit take-up.
- Meanwhile, a decade of growing monopolism in this country means broadband take-up is now below the rates elsewhere.
- Take-up for college places has been slow.
