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noun 
  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.

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