1. 申请率；购买率
    Take-up is the rate at which people apply for or buy something which is offered, for example financial help from the government or shares in a company.

    e.g. ...a major campaign to increase the take-up of welfare benefits.
           一场声势浩大的旨在增加福利待遇申请、接受率的运动

1. the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in

2. any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)

    e.g. a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool