GIVE-AND-TAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does give-and-take mean? 

• GIVE-AND-TAKE (noun)
  The noun GIVE-AND-TAKE has 3 senses:

1. an exchange of views on some topic

2. light teasing repartee

3. mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)

  Familiarity information: GIVE-AND-TAKE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVE-AND-TAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exchange of views on some topic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

discussion; give-and-take; word

Context example:

we had a word or two about it

Hypernyms ("give-and-take" is a kind of...):

language; oral communication; speech; speech communication; spoken communication; spoken language; voice communication ((language) communication by word of mouth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "give-and-take"):

argument; argumentation; debate (a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal)

deliberation ((usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question)

conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)

panel discussion (discussion of a subject of public interest by a group of persons forming a panel usually before an audience)

post-mortem; postmortem (discussion of an event after it has occurred)

public discussion; ventilation (free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest)

dialogue; negotiation; talks (a discussion intended to produce an agreement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Light teasing repartee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

backchat; banter; give-and-take; raillery

Hypernyms ("give-and-take" is a kind of...):

repartee (adroitness and cleverness in reply)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "give-and-take"):

badinage (frivolous banter)

persiflage (light teasing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

give-and-take; interchange; reciprocation

Hypernyms ("give-and-take" is a kind of...):

interaction (a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "give-and-take"):

reciprocity (mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges)

cross-fertilisation; cross-fertilization (interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial)

dealings; traffic (social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with'))

 Context examples 

The result of the rally in the last round had convinced his seconds that when it came to give-and-take hitting, their hardy and powerful man was likely to have the better of it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was so much attachment to Captain Wentworth in all this, and such a bewitching charm in a degree of hospitality so uncommon, so unlike the usual style of give-and-take invitations, and dinners of formality and display, that Anne felt her spirits not likely to be benefited by an increasing acquaintance among his brother-officers.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)