income - the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time

economic rent, rent - the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

payback - financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)

retake - a shot or scene that is photographed again

act, move - perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"

expend, use - use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

be - spend or use time; "I may be an hour"

beacon - guide with a beacon

hand - guide or conduct or usher somewhere; "hand the elderly lady into the taxi"

misguide, mislead, lead astray, misdirect - lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"

usher, show - take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums; "The usher showed us to our seats"

clutch, prehend, seize - take hold of; grab; "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"

seize - take or capture by force; "The terrorists seized the politicians"; "The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages"

bear away, bear off, carry away, take away, carry off - remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"

discerp, dismember, take apart - divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

take in - visit for entertainment; "take in the sights"

change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

re-assume - take on again, as after a time lapse; "He re-assumed his old behavior"

read - to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"

construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"

read - interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"

fetch, bring, get, convey - go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat"

fetch - take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"

bring - be accompanied by; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?"

carry, transport - move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"

transit - cause or enable to pass through; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"

ferry - transport from one place to another

tube - convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"

whisk - move somewhere quickly; "The President was whisked away in his limo"

channel, transmit, carry, impart, conduct, convey - transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"

land - bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"

adopt, take in - take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"

take away - take from a person or place; "We took the abused child away from its parents"

collect, take in - call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"

confiscate, impound, sequester, seize, attach - take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"

sequester - requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

pocket - put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change"

assume, take over, accept, bear - take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"

snaffle, snap up, grab - get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale"

call back, withdraw, call in, recall - cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

deprive, divest, strip - take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

unburden - free or relieve (someone) of a burden

draw off, take out, withdraw, draw - remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

take in - visit for entertainment; "take in the sights"

give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"

apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize - put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

anoint - choose by or as if by divine intervention; "She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group"

field - select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

sieve, sift - distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"

draw - select or take in from a given group or region; "The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population"

dial - choose by means of a dial; "dial a telephone number"

plump, go - give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates"

pick - select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"

elect - choose; "I elected to have my funds deposited automatically"

cull out, winnow - select desirable parts from a group or list; "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"; "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants"

pick over, sieve out - separate or remove; "The customer picked over the selection"

set apart, assign, specify - select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"

single out - select from a group; "She was singled out for her outstanding performance"

decide, make up one's mind, determine - reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"

think of - choose in one's mind; "Think of any integer between 1 and 25"

adopt, espouse, follow - choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"

screen out, sieve, sort, screen - examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"

vote in - elect in a voting process; "They voted in Clinton"

elect - select by a vote for an office or membership; "We elected him chairman of the board"

nominate, propose - put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"

vote - express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote; "He voted for the motion"; "None of the Democrats voted last night"

receive, have - get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"

acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work"

admit, take on, accept, take - admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"

welcome - accept gladly; "I welcome your proposals"

honor, honour - accept as pay; "we honor checks and drafts"

absorb, take over - take up, as of debts or payments; "absorb the costs for something"

assume, take over, accept, bear - take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"

take in - provide with shelter

assume, take up, strike, take - occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose"

do work, work - be employed; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college"

contemplate - consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"

trifle, dally, play - consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

think about - have on one's mind, think about actively; "I'm thinking about my friends abroad"; "She always thinks about her children first"

abstract - consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example"

warm to - become excited about; "He warmed to the idea of a trip to Antarctica"

exact, claim, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"

govern - require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood; "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German"

draw - require a specified depth for floating; "This boat draws 70 inches"

cost - require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job"

cry for, cry out for - need badly or desperately; "This question cries out for an answer"

compel - necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels conservation"

submit, take - accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"

experience, have, receive, get - go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"

photograph, shoot, snap - record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"

reshoot - shoot again; "We had to reshoot that scene 24 times"

harvest - remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals"

tip - remove the tip from; "tip artichokes"

stem - remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

extirpate - surgically remove (an organ)

enucleate - remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover

exenterate - remove the contents of (an organ)

enucleate - remove the nucleus from (a cell)

decorticate - remove the cortex of (an organ)

bail - remove (water) from a vessel with a container

undress, disinvest, divest, strip - remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"

ablate - remove an organ or bodily structure

clean, pick - remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"

clean - remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it"

winnow - blow away or off with a current of air; "winnow chaff"

pick - remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"

clear up, clear - free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; "Clear the throat"

muck - remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine

lift - remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"

lift - take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"

lift - remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"

tear away, tear off - rip off violently and forcefully; "The passing bus tore off her side mirror"

take off - take away or remove; "Take that weight off me!"

take away, take out - take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"

stone, pit - remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"

seed - remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"

unhinge - remove the hinges from; "unhinge the door"

shuck - remove the shucks from; "shuck corn"

hull - remove the hulls from; "hull the berries"

crumb - remove crumbs from; "crumb the table"

chip away, chip away at - remove or withdraw gradually: "These new customs are chipping away at the quality of life"

burl - remove the burls from cloth

knock out - destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out"

degas - remove gas from

husk, shell - remove the husks from; "husk corn"

bur, burr - remove the burrs from

flick - remove with a flick (of the hand)

dismantle, strip - take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"

strip - remove a constituent from a liquid

clear - remove; "clear the leaves from the lawn"; "Clear snow from the road"

defang - remove the fangs from; "defang the poisonous snake"

debone, bone - remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it"

shell - remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"

shuck - remove from the shell; "shuck oysters"

detusk, tusk - remove the tusks of animals; "tusk an elephant"

dehorn - prevent the growth of horns of certain animals

scalp - remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped"

weed - clear of weeds; "weed the garden"

condense - remove water from; "condense the milk"

bale out, bail out - remove (water) from a boat by dipping and throwing over the side

leach, strip - remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"

decalcify - remove calcium or lime from; "decalcify the rock"

de-ionate - remove ions from; "ionate thyroxine"

de-iodinate - remove iodine from; "de-iodinate the thyroxine"

hit - consume to excess; "hit the bottle"

habituate, use - take or consume (regularly or habitually); "She uses drugs rarely"

eat - eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"

eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"

drink, imbibe - take in liquids; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda"

booze, drink, fuddle - consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night"

partake, touch - consume; "She didn't touch her food all night"

eat, feed - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"

sample, taste, try, try out - take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"

smoke - inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"

swallow, get down - pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"

sup - take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon

test - undergo a test; "She doesn't test well"

undergo - pass through; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation"

take - experience or feel or submit to; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge"

co-opt - take or assume for one's own use; "He co-opted the criticism and embraced it"

rescue - take forcibly from legal custody; "rescue prisoners"

scale - take by attacking with scaling ladders; "The troops scaled the walls of the fort"

extort - obtain through intimidation

take over, usurp, arrogate, seize, assume - seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"

retake, recapture - take back by force, as after a battle; "The military forces managed to recapture the fort"

relieve - take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"

steal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

sack, plunder - plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"

move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right"

fill, occupy, take - assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"

profess - receive into a religious order or congregation

accept, take, have - receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"

let in, admit, include - allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"

incur, obtain, receive, get, find - receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

audit - attend academic courses without getting credit

train, prepare - undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid"

practice, practise, drill, exercise - learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"

necessitate, need, require, call for, demand, postulate, involve, ask, take - require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

head - to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains"

target, direct, aim, place, point - intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"

draw a bead on - aim with a gun; "The hunter drew a bead on the rabbit"

hold - aim, point, or direct; "Hold the fire extinguisher directly on the flames"

turn - direct at someone; "She turned a smile on me"; "They turned their flashlights on the car"

swing - hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee"

point, level, charge - direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"

level - aim at; "level criticism or charges at somebody"

position - cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation

sight - take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)

become, get, go - enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"

feature, have - have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"

carry - have or possess something abstract; "I carry her image in my mind's eye"; "I will carry the secret to my grave"; "I carry these thoughts in the back of my head"; "I carry a lot of life insurance"

acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work"

buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store"

commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store"

draw off, take out, withdraw, draw - remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

arrogate, lay claim, claim - demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"

be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

contain, bear, carry, hold - contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"

accommodate, admit, hold - have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people"

driving - the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal

motor, drive - travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater"

drive - operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?"

drive - cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"

win - be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game"

sicken, come down - get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"

catch - contract; "did you catch a cold?"