[Ads-l] intake/take in

[Amy West]

Another one for the prepositional verb/backformation files . . .

One of my students is an "Intake Coordinator" and in writing about her 
work she writes:

"The more clients I intake, the more PSC’s we need to hire to mange 
those cases."

Not "take in".

My copy of MWC11 is old and doesn't show "intake" as a verb (though it's 
likely in MW3 and OED). Here it's most likely field-specific 
terminology, and that may be influencing the verbing.

---Amy West

(Back to grading . . . )



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