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Please provide context - no word exists in isolation but within its surrounding text and context - if you don't provide this we cannot gauge the meaning
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In common with most of your questions to date, it would almost certainly help if you gave us some surrounding context in which this term appears.
In particular, I note your question term is not hyphenated, while in the body of your question, you seem to have hyphenated it; this is important, as it might indicate you are making an assumption about the parsing, if the source text is NOT hyphenated? Personally, I would have assumed the sense required 'pre off-take' — which is why your confirmation on the above point + surrounding context would be immensely useful!
On Google, all possible permutations of hyphenation can be found! However, at least one ref. I found mentions 'off-take' and 'on-take' together, confirming my original suspicion that, at best, this is a 'pre- off-take', and that 'pre-off' on its own is meaningless.
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As Tony says;more context would shed some light on the meaning.
In particular, I note your question term is not hyphenated, while in the body of your question, you seem to have hyphenated it; this is important, as it might indicate you are making an assumption about the parsing, if the source text is NOT hyphenated? Personally, I would have assumed the sense required 'pre off-take' — which is why your confirmation on the above point + surrounding context would be immensely useful!
On Google, all possible permutations of hyphenation can be found! However, at least one ref. I found mentions 'off-take' and 'on-take' together, confirming my original suspicion that, at best, this is a 'pre- off-take', and that 'pre-off' on its own is meaningless.