take-in

1. 1.

   the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone

   Broaderdeception

Questions about take-in

What does take-in mean?

take-in means "the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone".

How many syllables are in take-in?

take-in has 2 syllables and divides as ta-ke-in under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is take-in a common word?

take-in is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.