Take Turns

Definition: Take Turns

Take Turns

Verb

1. Do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Take Turns

Crosswords: Take Turns

We take turns cooking. (The Outsiders; writing credit: Bruce Kirschbaum; Todd Robinson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Take Turns, Penguin! (Willis, Jeanne. Be Nice at School Series.) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

While the men were milking the boys would take turns in riding the tractable mare round the field.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "take turns": take turns to ♦ take turns with smb. ♦ To take turns. Additional references.

Albanian

kthehem (backtrack, bend, come back, flounce, get back, go back, lurch, move back, redound, rejoin, return, set, slew, start back, turn aside, turn back, turn over, turn round, veer, wheel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أخذ دور. (various references)

Bulgarian 

редуваме се. (various references)

Czech

střídat se (reciprocate). (various references)

Finnish

vuorotella (alternate, occur alternately, take it in turns). (various references)

French

prendre son rôle. (various references)

German

sich ablösen (alternate, become detached, come off, peel off, relieve each other, slough, soak off, work in relays). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω με τη σειρά. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעשות לפי �"תור. (various references)

Hungarian

sorban következik (to rank). (various references)

Indonesian

gilir (alternate), bergilir-gilir, bergiliran, berganti-ganti (by turns, keep on changing). (various references)

Italian

alternare (alternate, change). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立ち替わる (to alternate, to take turns), 換わる (to be exchanged, to be replaced, to be substituted for, to change places with, to relieve, to take the place of, to take turns), 替わる (to be exchanged, to be replaced, to be substituted for, to change places with, to relieve, to take the place of, to take turns), 代り合う (to relieve each other, to take turns), 代わる (to be exchanged, to be replaced, to be substituted for, to change places with, to relieve, to take the place of, to take turns), 代る (to be exchanged, to be replaced, to be substituted for, to change places with, to relieve, to take the place of, to take turns). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちかわる (to alternate, to take turns), かわりあう (to relieve each other, to take turns), かわる (to be different, to be exchanged, to be replaced, to be revised, to be substituted for, to be transformed, to change, to change places with, to move location, to relieve, to take the place of, to take turns, to vary). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay urnstay.(various references)

Portuguese

revezar-se. (various references)

Russian 

делать по очереди. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smenjivati se (give way to, rotate). (various references)

Spanish

turnarse. (various references)

Swedish

turas om att med ngn. (take turns with smb.), turas om att (take turns to). (various references)

Turkish

nöbetleşmek, nöbetleşe yapmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

робити по черзі, чергуватися (alternate, interchange, interlace, rotate). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: taunters.

-2 letters: attunes, entrust, natters, natures, nutates, nutters, rankest, rattens, saunter, stature, tankers, taunter, tautens, tetanus, truants, unstate.

-3 letters: antres, astern, astute, attune, knaurs, krauts, kurtas, natter, nature, nutate, nutter, ratten, santur, skater, stater, statue, sterna, strake, streak, strunt, sunket, takers, tanker, taster, taters, taunts, tauten, tauter, tetras, tranks, treats, truant, truest, trunks, tuners, tusker, unrest, unseat, urates, utters.

-4 letters: ankus, antes, antre, asker, aster, aunts, aures, earns, eskar, etnas, kanes, karns, karst, karts, kerns, knars, knaur, knurs, kraut, kurta, nares, narks, nates, nears, neats, nerts, netts, neuks, nukes, nurse, rakes, ranks, rants, rates, rents, runes, runts, saker, saner, saute, skate, skean, snake, snare, snark, sneak, stake, stane, stank, stare, stark, start, state, steak, stern, strut, stunk, stunt, sturt, sutra, sutta, taken, taker, takes, tanks, tares, tarns, tarts, taste, tater, tates, taunt, tauts, teaks, tears, teats, tents, terns, testa, tetra, trank, trans, treat, treks, trets, trues, trunk, trust, tunas, tuner, tunes, turks, turns, ukase, unset, urase, urate, ureas, ursae, usnea, utter.

-5 letters: anes, ante, ants, anus, ares, arks, arse, arts, ates, auks, aunt, earn, ears, east, eats, eras, erns, erst, etas, etna, kaes, kane, karn, kart, kats, keas, kens, kent, kern, knar, knur, kues, kuna, kune, nark, near, neat, nest, nets, nett, neuk, nuke, nuts, rake, rank, rant, rase, rate, rats, rent, rest, rets, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rusk, rust, ruts, sake, sane, sank, sark, sate, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, sett, skat, skua, star, stat, stet, stun, suer, suet, sunk, sura, sure, take, tank, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tart, task, tate, tats, taus, taut, teak, tear, teas, teat, tens, tent, tern, test, tets, trek, tret, true, tsar, tuna, tune, tuns, turk, turn, tusk, tuts, ukes, urea, urns, ursa, user, utas.

+5 letters: counterattacks.

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