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  1. TAKE SOMETHING OFF definition: 1. to remove something, especially clothes: 2. to spend time away from your work: 3. If an…. Learn more.

  2. TAKE OFF definition: 1. If an aircraft takes off, it begins to fly. 2. to suddenly become successful: 3. to suddenly…. Learn more.

  3. The meaning of TAKEOFF is a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket. How to use takeoff in a sentence.

  4. If you take someone off, you imitate them and the things that they do and say, in such a way that you make other people laugh. [ mainly British ] Mike can take off his father to perfection.

  5. a piece of acting or writing, etc. that copies the way a particular person speaks or behaves, or the way something is done, usually to entertain other people: It was the best takeoff of the mayor that I have ever seen. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  6. take something off something. to remove an amount of money or a number of marks, points, etc. in order to reduce the total. The manager took $10 off the bill. That experience took ten years off my life (= made me feel ten years older).

  7. takeoff in British English. (ˈteɪkˌɒf ) noun. 1. the act or an instance of a plane leaving the ground and beginning to fly. The aircraft crashed after takeoff from Heathrow in a reservoir. The commuter plane was waiting for takeoff. The plane was waiting for takeoff. 2. informal.