government take

Noun

Meaning

government take (plural government takes)

A government's revenue through taxes, royalties and government participation

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is. Howard Dean

Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian. Henry Ford

Save me from that! To pour your life into sons for eighteen or twenty years, and then have the government take them away and waste them cleaning up after some failure of politics-no thanks. Lois McMaster Bujold

Let Blair and the British government take note and listen. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. Our people are overjoyed. The land is ours. We are now the rulers and owners of Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe

Close letter words and terms

government stroke government subsidy government system government that is appointed by outside authority government to put government transfer