Usually means: Process of taking something in.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. intake: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. intake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intake: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intake, intake: Wordnik
  7. intake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intake: Wiktionary
  9. intake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intake: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intake: Dictionary.com
  13. intake: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. intake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Intake (disambiguation), Intake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Intake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. intake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. intake: Rhymezone
  19. intake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. intake: Free Dictionary
  21. intake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. intake: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. intake: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intake: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. intake: Medical dictionary
  3. Intake: Brain Injury

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intake: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
noun:  The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
noun:  The quantity taken in.
noun:  An act or instance of taking in.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A nostril, especially a large one.
noun:  The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.
noun:  The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
noun:  A tract of land enclosed.
noun:  (UK, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
verb:  (transitive) To take in or draw in; to bring in from outside.

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