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Take-in   /teɪk-ɪn/   Listen
Take-in

noun
1.
The act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone.





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"Take-in" Quotes from Famous Books



... literature is held in no estimation in that city, eloquence has no niche there, economy and decent standards of morality come into no reward of honor there; you must know that every man whom you will meet in that city belongs to one of two factions; they either 'take-in,' or else they are 'taken-in.' No one brings up children in that city, for the reason that no one who has heirs is invited to dinner or admitted to the games; such an one is deprived of all enjoyments and must lurk with the rabble. On the other hand, those who have ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter


Words linked to "Take-in" :   dissembling, deception, dissimulation, deceit, take in


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