take five

1. 1.

   take a break for five minutes

   “The musicians took five during the rehearsal”

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Questions about take five

What does take five mean?

take five means "take a break for five minutes".

Is take five a common word?

take five is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.