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offtake|ˈɒfteɪk, ˈɔː-|
[f. off- 3 + take n.]
1. The action of taking off; spec. the taking of commodities off the market; purchase of goods. Also, the removal of oil from a reservoir or supply. Also attrib.
1885Manch. Exam. 10 June 4/4 In jacconets..supply and offtake seem to have been brought pretty well into conformity. 1896Westm. Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/2 The proportion of the total off-take of the Shanghai market supplied by Great Britain or her Colonies was 79 per cent. 1955Times 12 May 17/2 Producers have not been keen recently to tender metal for the stockpile because of the high rate of commercial off-take. Ibid. 25 June 9/1 A reduced offtake at home has ensued on top of a persistent decline in export sales. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. 5/1 Only a moderate offtake is reported for English barley but offers remain generally small. 1969Hindu (Madras) 3 Aug. 1/5 With the opening of free market shops, the off-take from the existing ration shops would go down. 1973‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green iv. 23 We might work out some sort of guarantee based on the projected offtake of their new oil discoveries in the Western Desert. 1974Information Handbk. 1974–5 (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 73 In Spain the Amposta field..started production in February 1973 and at the end of the year had averaged 16 800 b/d: owing to offtake difficulties, well below the scheduled 30 000 b/d. 1975Petroleum Rev. XXIX. 317/1 Links with local supply systems are effected at small offtake stations, where the pipework and associated control valves appear above ground.
2. That which is taken off; a deduction.
1892Labour Commission Gloss., Off-takes, all deductions retained from the men's wages for house-rent, house-coal, doctor's fees, tool-sharpening, closed lights, etc.
3. A channel by which, or place where, something is taken off: spec.
a. Mining. A subsidiary drainage-level: see quot.
1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 320 There are subsidiary levels, called off-takes or drifts, which discharge the water of a mine, not at the mouth of a pit, but..where, from the form of the country, it may be run off level free.
b. The taking off or flowing out of a branch-stream from the main channel of a river; the place of such outflow.
188819th Cent. Jan. 44 The third of the Hugli headwaters has its principal offtake from the Ganges again about forty miles further down. |