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Meanings of takings in English

Portuguese
rendimento
Catalan
rendiment
Spanish
rendimiento

The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.

      rendimento
      Usage of takings in English
      1
      He never shared a sense of moral outrage at the Germans' takings.
      Secret of the seventh son
      2
      Seventy-six percent of Fast 7′s takings were gathered outside the United States.
      The Irish Times
      3
      These days, Tom Cruise pictures succeed on their takings in non-Anglophone territories.
      The Irish Times
      4
      That's about five percent higher than the average ratio of Irish-to-UK takings.
      The Irish Times
      5
      More than two-thirds of box-office takings are from outside the United States.
      Reuters
      6
      A small group of films make an enormous percentage of the takings.
      The Irish Times
      7
      Around 15 percent of those combined takings were hoovered up in Ireland.
      The Irish Times
      8
      That pawnshop where Ethan used to sell our takings, where was it?
      Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
      9
      The takings are so huge in the US that this hardly matters.
      The Irish Times
      10
      I counted up the day's takings and took them to the safe.
      Voices in the dark
      11
      Thus the gross takings were two louis, ten livres, and two sous.
      Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
      12
      That estimate of their total takings, he says, could be very conservative.
      Reuters
      13
      Why shouldst thou break thy brethren's hearts and ours by many leave-takings!
      Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
      14
      Leave-takings are stupid things, and best forgotten about as quickly as possible.
      A Town like Alice
      15
      However under the current rules the host nation keeps 100 percent of gate-takings.
      Radio NZ
      16
      Betting companies including Tabcorp also reported a small decline in their day's takings.
      News.com.au
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      Ireland
      Common
      United Kingdom
      Less common
      United States of America
      Rare