Takings is the money a shop, restaurant, market stall, or small business actually takes in from selling things over some period — a day, a week, a match, a weekend. 'The day's takings' is all the money that came through the till that day. It is always plural: the takings were good, not 'the taking was good'. The word carries a picture with it — cash, a till, someone counting it up at closing time — so it fits small, cash-handling businesses far better than big companies. A corner shop has takings; Google has revenue. British and Irish English use it much more than American English, where 'receipts' or 'the day's sales' is the usual word. It is also a plain-money word rather than a profit word: takings is what came in, before you pay for the stock, the rent and the staff. Good takings and a bad month can happily sit together. You often meet it in stories about theft — 'a thief made off with the night's takings' — because the takings are the pile of cash sitting in the shop at the end of the day.