Noun

(en noun)

The act of arriving or something that has arrived.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.

The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}

Noun

(wikipedia takeoff) (en noun)

The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.

The flight was smooth, but the takeoff was a little rough.

A parody or lampoon of someone or something.

song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba".

*1897 , Edward Bellamy, Equality ,

*:I came across a little pamphlet of the period, yellow and almost undecipherable, which, on examination, I found to be a rather amusing skit or satirical take-off on the profit system.

A quantification, especially of building materials.

I'll give you an estimate after I do the quantity takeoffs for the trusses and structural steel.