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What does take five mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word take five? Here's what it means.

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  1. (idiomatic) to take a short, typically five-minute, break from some activity
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It used to take five years of pensionable service before employees enjoyed this flexibility.
I believe he's entitled to take five or six months off after what he's achieved this year.
In the first one, we would select abalone that had a faster growth rate and so this wouldn't take five years for the abalone to become mature.
That will take five years, as more primary teachers have yet to be recruited and trained.
Which, give or take five minutes or so, is when we got there.
They tell him not to get it removed, a surgical procedure that would take five minutes according to Krishnanunni's distant cousin in town.

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