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Noun
en-noun|sg=take-a-verb

1. linguistics A highly constrained syntactic construction in American English in which it is said of a verb that one 'takes' it.rfv-sense|It seems wrong. Examples have nouns where def. says a verb should be

#:Examples: take a break, take a shower, take a bath, etc.

See also
(Australian English) have-a-verb

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