taking

Adjective

• Alluring; attractive.
• Infectious; contagious.

Noun

• The act by which something is taken.
• A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
• A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
• Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).

Verb

• Present participle of take