take time

Verb

Meaning

To require a comparatively long period of time.
Learning a foreign language takes time.
It takes time to get used to having a step-parent.

To volunteer to spend one's time (for a purpose or beneficiary).
He took time to help us with his son with his homework.
He took time for his son.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

take the time make time

Antonyms

race

Examples

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. Michael Ondaatje

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience. Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Take time to smell the roses. Russian Proverb

Take time when time is, for time will away. Russian Proverb

Take time while time is, for time will away. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

take the wrong turn take the wrong turn at Albuquerque take the wrong way take time off take time out take time to smell the roses