take-up

plural take-ups

1. countableuncountableThe act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
2. countableuncountablemachineryThat which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
3. countableuncountableAcceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.); uptake.

   the take-up of benefits by the unemployed

   2 more examples

   As a first step, Mode Shift Revenue Support (MSRS) funding should be expanded, to ensure a higher take-up of unused freight paths in today's timetable and to help shape a sustainable path for multi-modal UK logistics.

   2023 July 26, Jim Steer, “Where rail can win modal shift”, in RAIL, number 988, page 40

   Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O'Shea said any deals done with big tech companies or relating to data centres should not be behind closed doors. "We need sustainable, discerning take-up of frontier technologies," she said.

   2026 July 17, Zac de Silva, Jacob Shteyman and Tess Ikonomou, “New rules for AI as critics lash 'energy vampires'”, in MSN