France never experienced a "take off" of the sort hypothesized by W. W. Rostow — a sudden spurt of output that begins sustained industrial growth.

Therefore, the only sure way to estimate the quantity of lumber required for any particular job is to do a take off of each piece of lumber needed for the work.

This is virtually equal to the minimum value shown above to be necessary in the case of a total loss in thrust from one of the four engines at take off.

The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.

Tomorrow the doctor will take the cast off her arm.

Sounds nice. Has a certain ring to it. Take your shirt off.

The Russian bear has always been eager to stick his paw in Latin American waters. Now we've got him in a trap, let's take his leg off right up to his testicles. On second thought, let's take off his testicles, too.

Pym would take him off perfectly, thought Brotherhood. Pym would catch that accent to a tee.

The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3.

The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.

2007 July 12, The Guardian, A welcome invasion.
The message is now the medium – that is powerful and means products can take off practically all by themselves.

Ben threw twenty bucks on the table, grabbed the map and took off after the thief, following Susan who had run off before him.

I'll take off the concrete and steel for this construction project.

If you take off for Thanksgiving you must work Christmas and vice versa.

He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner.

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