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.

Noun

(wikipedia takeover) (en noun)

(label) The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Turn it off , passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}

The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.

A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.

*1991 , Information Services on Latin America (Oakland, Calif.), ISLA: Volume 43, Issues 1-3 , p. 195:

Revollo was absent when Bolivian police and the navy captain arrived at dawn, and the base takeover came off without problems, according to a U.S. narcotics official.