English-Italian translations for taking

• prelievo
  I governi devono introdurre tasse sul prelievo dell'acqua dai fiumi. Governments must phase in charges for taking water from our rivers.
  Juliet si punse accidentalmente il pollice con l'ago che le era scivolato mentre stava effettuando il prelievo. Juliet accidentally pricked her thumb on the needle after it slipped when she was taking a sample.
  Si prenda il caso di Juliet Young; Juliet era un'infermiera ed è deceduta nel 2008, sette anni dopo aver contratto l'HIV in un ospedale londinese, durante un prelievo di sangue da un paziente infetto.Take the case of Juliet Young. Juliet was a nurse who died in 2008, seven years after contracting HIV while taking blood from an infected patient in a London hospital.

Definition of taking

• Alluring; attractive
• Infectious; contagious
• The act by which something is taken
• A seizure of someone's goods or possessions
• Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example

Examples

• Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.
• Count the shops takings.

Related words

• breathtaking
• undertaking
• mistaking
• overtaking
• painstaking
• staking
• painstakingly
• takings
• stocktaking