TAKE FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take for mean? 

• TAKE FOR (verb)
  The verb TAKE FOR has 1 sense:

1. keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view

  Familiarity information: TAKE FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

deem; hold; take for; view as

Context example:

I hold him personally responsible

Hypernyms (to "take for" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Verb group:

hold (assert or affirm)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

May I go also, and take for you the bundles?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So they went up to the woodman, and asked him what he would take for the little man.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The amount of time it take for a cessation of bleeding.

(Bleeding Time, NCI Thesaurus)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Medications not prescribed by my doctor that I take for pain are.

(BPI - Medications not Prescribed Taken for Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Do you worry about the long term effects of the drugs you take for your chest trouble?

(AQ20 - Worry About Long Term Effects of Drugs for Chest Trouble, NCI Thesaurus)

When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end of the business; but it’s ‘Where are the geese?’ and ‘Who did you sell the geese to?’ and ‘What will you take for the geese?’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By conversing with the Houyhnhnms, and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gesture, which is now grown into a habit; and my friends often tell me, in a blunt way, that I trot like a horse; which, however, I take for a great compliment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“When Em'ly got strong again,” said Mr. Peggotty, after another short interval of silence, “she cast about to leave that good young creetur, and get to her own country. The husband was come home, then; and the two together put her aboard a small trader bound to Leghorn, and from that to France. She had a little money, but it was less than little as they would take for all they done. I'm a'most glad on it, though they was so poor! What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. Mas'r Davy, it'll outlast all the treasure in the wureld.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The prince took the shoe, and went the next day to the king his father, and said, “I will take for my wife the lady that this golden slipper fits.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)