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Free sign upThe phrase "take a list" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to physically or mentally gather or acquire a list. It is often used in instructional or organizational contexts. Example: Remember to take a list of items you need to buy at the grocery store.
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It could potentially take a list of email addresses.
"I will take a list of names with me and call them out one by one, and tell everyone what they have been doing".
These routines take a list of arguments, with the first one being the tool name and the remaining the command-line arguments, and run the tool.
He is "supposed to do the grocery shopping" (the italics are not mine), but he refuses to take a list and often returns having forgotten such useful items as toilet paper.
Some bookmark management sites will take a list of Web pages (the entries are called bookmarks in the Netscape browser and favorites in Internet Explorer) and automatically categorize them.
There's another thing I might do, which is very, very similar, which is take a List and some action you want to do and then do it to each item in the List in sequence.
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Mr. Lehmkuhl said he took A-list to mean accomplishment.
But, by law, you can't take a listing that way.
"Some brokers would take a listing off the market and put it back on as if it were new," he said.
"If we take a listing on a Manhattan apartment priced in the low $200,000 range, we'll ask for more than 6percentt," Ms. Kaye said.
He took a list of names out of his pocket.
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