GIVE AND TAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does give and take mean? 

• GIVE AND TAKE (verb)
  The verb GIVE AND TAKE has 1 sense:

1. make mutual concessions

  Familiarity information: GIVE AND TAKE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVE AND TAKE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make mutual concessions

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

In life you have to give and take

Hypernyms (to "give and take" is one way to...):

compromise (make a compromise; arrive at a compromise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

And in review would pass along the corridors of memory all previous thrills and burnings he had known,—the drunkenness of wine, the caresses of women, the rough play and give and take of physical contests,—and they seemed trivial and mean compared with this sublime ardor he now enjoyed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)