taker

CEFRB1

/ˈteɪkɚ/

noun

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noun
A person who accepts or takes something.
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noun
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A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.

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An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent.
2008 March 2, Bruce Barcott, “The Higher They Climb”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2018
Barely a decade ago, the notion that land should be managed in order to ensure planetary wellbeing had few takers among farmers whose raison d'etre was to fill human bellies at the lowest possible cost. But this is the proposition that is now poised to determine the future of farming.
2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023
The ſixt is like a Crabbe, & this is called by Elianus a flamant Scorpion, it is of a great body, and hath tonges and takers very ſolid and ſtrong, like the Gramuell or Creuiſh, & is therefore thought to take the beginning from that fiſh.
1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Scorpion”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 223

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From Middle English takere, equivalent to take + -er.