Usage of "give-and-take"

Catalan

Light teasing repartee.

Portuguese

Catalan

Spanish

An exchange of views on some topic.

Synonyms

Examples for "word"

Examples for "word"

Second Hand Sense:FIRST, a word on prices in the used car market. 
 The Irish Times 

If the first word was 'the' that made 'X' stand for 'E'. 
 Faerie Wars 

The word 'macaroni' has meant different things to different people over time. 
 BBC 

I wrote this article about the word 'queer' in the paper today. 
 The Irish Times 

A Chechnya where one thing is already clear: his word is law. 
 Wired 

However, foreign aid is an extremely important debate that needs wider discussion. 
 The Guardian 

Today the government released a discussion paper outlining what's wrong with… Audio 
 Radio NZ 

Long discussion of how the defense of Western Europe affects arms control. 
 The new yorker 

Yet one thing often is left out of the discussion: civil rights. 
 Wired 

Provided of course, the discussion comes up with some useful way forward. 
 Radio NZ 

Portuguese

Catalan

Spanish

Mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)

Usage of give-and-take in English

Instead, multitudes started adopting pragmatic ways to allow give-and-take among complex citizens. 
 Existence 

It makes the give-and-take compromises so necessary to politics harder to achieve. 
 The Guardian 

And the sense of give-and-take between soloist and orchestra is first- rate. 
 The Irish Times 

He suggested there needed to be more give-and-take from the other side. 
 BBC 

The usual give-and-take of gay repartee was missing at supper that night. 
 Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ... 

Armen licked his lips, obviously getting into the spirit of the give-and-take. 
 The witch of agnesi 

The habit led sometimes to perilous personalities in the sudden give-and-take of table-talk. 
 The Education of Henry Adams 

After fifteen minutes of give-and-take it was the asari who offered a compromise. 
 Mass Effect: Deception 

A little give-and-take at the right time could make life easier for today! 
 The South African 

Even after that, years of often tortuous give-and-take might lie ahead for Serbia. 
 Reuters 

This time there would be no discussion of hypothetical iniquities, no polite give-and-take. 
 The Complete Alien Omnibus 

The solution may well require a little give-and-take on both sides! 
 The South African 

But in give-and-take, as one might say, you are igstreamly droll. 
 Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales 

Of course, there will have to be some give-and-take about this. 
 Mavericks 

There doesn't seem to be any give-and-take between us any longer. 
 North of Fifty-Three 

It's certainly a day that could benefit from some give-and-take. 
 The South African 

Translations for give-and-take

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Meanings of give-and-take in English