take off

Questions about take off

What does take off mean?

take off means "leave". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for take off?

Close synonyms include depart, part, start, start out, set forth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take off a common word?

take off is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.