take ten

1. 1.

   take a ten minute break

   “The players took ten during the long rehearsal”

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Questions about take ten

What does take ten mean?

take ten means "take a ten minute break".

Is take ten a common word?

take ten 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.