1 someone who uses a drug or medicine: --
a drug taker
2 someone who takes or holds someone or something: --
a hostage taker
3 a person interested in what has been offered: --
4 a person who does something: --
Census takers use a mathematical formula and apply it to the overall locality.
5 someone who agrees to buy or do something: --
A call for volunteers yielded only 30 takers.
few/not many/no takers There have been few takers for stakes in Mexico's newly privatised companies.
Until the 1990s this took the form of a one-to-one interaction between a test taker and an interlocutor/examiner.
As such, assessment is tailored online to accommodate the test taker's estimated ability and confront the examinee with items that best measure that ability.
She focuses specifically on a failing performance, looking for evidence in the test taker's answers that were construed as indicating a limited language proficiency.
Still, test developers are interested in "adapting" the selection of items for each test taker.
These include both the designs of the workshops of smear takers and community health educators.
A separable or recursive model relies on the fact that all relevant markets are clear, and that households are price takers.
This point is of great practical importance for green accounting in developing countries, most of which are price takers in international commodity markets.
He maintains that test takers' previous experiences with and attitudes towards computers, as well as their backgrounds, also need to be considered.
