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

1. [N. Amer] Prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises
   "They ordered Chinese takeout food for a quiet night in";
   - takeout food [N. Amer], takeaway [Brit]
    
2. (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit
   "His takeout double asked his partner to bid her best suit"

1. Remove from its packing
   "take out the presents";
   - unpack
    
2. Cause to leave
   "The security guards took out the unruly spectators";
   - move out, remove
    
3. Remove something from a container or an enclosed space
   "He took out the trash from the bin"
    
4. Take out or remove
   "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables";
   - fish out [informal]
    
5. 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, rip out, tear out
    
6. Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
   "take out a weapon";
   - draw, pull, pull out, get out
    
7. Take liquid out of a container or well
   "She took out water from the barrel";
   - draw
    
8. [N. Amer] Purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
   "Let's take out Chinese food tonight"
    
9. [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
    
10. Make a date
    "He took out the new girl from accounting";
    - ask out, invite out
     
11. Obtain by legal or official process
    "take out a licence"; "take out a patent"
     
12. Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
    "She took out $2,000 from the account";
    - withdraw, draw, draw off
     
13. Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
    "She took out several key passages from the novel for her essay";
    - excerpt, extract
     
14. Prevent from being included, considered or accepted
    "The committee took out that clause from the final draft";
    - exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit
     
15. [informal] Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
    "The gangsters threatened to take out anyone who talked";
    - neutralize, neutralise [Brit], liquidate, waste [informal], knock off [informal], do in [informal], clip [informal], whack [informal]

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

See also: bump off [informal], croak [informal], despatch [Brit], dispatch, draw, murder, off [N. Amer, informal], polish off [informal], portable, slay [literary], take

Type of: ask for, bespeak, bid, bidding, buy, call for, cause, choose, convenience food, do away with, eat, eliminate, extinguish, get, get rid of, have, induce, kill, make, obtain, pick out, purchase, remove, request, select, stimulate, take, take away, withdraw

Antonym: pack

Encyclopedia: Takeout