taking

1. (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.uncountable

2. (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).Examples: "What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?"; ""[...] at last, he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird. He might have stuck a knife into her neck, she started round in such a taking. "'Get away, this moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?' she cried, in a tone of disgust. [...]"; "“And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your takings.”"uncountable

3. (in the plural, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).Examples: "Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week."; "Count the shop's takings."; "[...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens."Synonyms: income, receiptsCommonwealthIrelandUKcountablein-pluraluncountable