Give And Take

Definition: Give And Take

Give And Take

Verb

1. Make mutual concessions; "In life you have to give and take".

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Literature

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Barter

Trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in.

Compensation

Verb: make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem; (atone).

Compromise

Verb: compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms; (contract); submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange; straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; take the will for the deed.

Interchange

Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite.

Probity

Give and take, audire alteram partem, give the Devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse.

Retaliation

Verb: retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo; Noun: give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores.

Give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous.

Right

See justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to; recompense; (reward); bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem.

Justice, equity; equitableness; Adjective: propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis.

Crosswords: Give And Take

I never thought that give and take (24/7; performing artist: Kevon Edmonds)

But it's a game of give and take (You Can't Hurry Love; performing artist: Phil Collins)

It's all give and take and you just take (I've Done Everything For You; performing artist: Rick Springfield)

They told me marriage was a give and take, (Everything She Wants; performing artist: Wham!)

Give and Take (1952)

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Books

• Give and Take (From the Files of Madison Finn, 11) (reference)

• Give and Take With Eb and Flo: The Marital Relationship/Adventures in the Marital Relationship (reference)

• Give and Take (From the Files of Madison Finn, 10) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Give And Take (reference)

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We must both give and take, my loving lord

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Expression using "give and take": To give and take. Additional references.

Albanian

shaka pa të keq, lëshim të dyanshme, hidh-e-prit. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تنازلات من الجانبين, ‏تنازلات متبادلة (logrolling), ‏خذ واعطى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

размяна на мисли (communion), взаимно въздействие, взаимни отстъпки. (various references)

Czech

kompromis (compromise, halfway house, trade off). (various references)

French

concessions mutuelles. (various references)

Greek 

αμοιβαίεσ παραχωρήσεισ, αμοιβαία παραχώρηση, δούναι και λάβειν. (various references)

Hebrew 

תן וקח, ותורים �"�"�"ים. (various references)

Hungarian

megegyezési kompromisszum (case of give and take), kölcsönös engedmények (case of give and take). (various references)

Indonesian

berambil-ambilan. (various references)

Italian

compromesso (accommodation, compensation, compromise, equation, offset, preliminary agreement, tradeoff). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

譲り合う (to compromise, to give and take, to make mutual concessions). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ゆずりあう (to compromise, to give and take, to make mutual concessions). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivegay anday aketay.(various references)

Romanian

concesii mutuale, compromis (composition, compromise, cross, discredited, disgraced). (various references)

Russian 

компромисс (compromise), взаимные уступки, обмен мнениями (interchange of views, showdown). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzajamni ustupci. (various references)

Spanish

tomar y sacar, toma y daca (trade off), intercambio (cartel, exchange, interchange, swap, swapping, swop, trade off). (various references)

Swedish

givande och tagande, ge och ta, kompromiss (accommodation, accord, compromise). (various references)

Turkish

uzlaşma (accommodation, accord, agreement, combine, compromise, half measure, half-way house, mediatory, rapprochement, reconciliation, reunification, reunion, settlement, understanding), uyuşma (accommodation, agreement, alignment, anesthesia, axis, bargain, compromise, concurence, consonance, entente, equalization, narcosis, numbness, pins and needles, stupefaction, understanding), karşılıklı fedakârlık, fikir alış verişi, al gülüm ver gülüm. (various references)

Ukrainian

вза�"мні уступки. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: navigated, negatived.

-3 letters: agentive, divagate, indagate, navigate, negative, vaginate.

-4 letters: avenged, aviated, deaving, deviant, deviate, evading, evident, naivete, negated, taeniae, tankage, vaginae, vantage, ventage, vintage.

-5 letters: adnate, advent, aedine, agenda, agnate, anteed, avenge, aviate, dating, dative, deking, detain, devein, eating, endite, endive, envied, evited, gained, gaited, geneva, ideate, ingate, intake, invade, kinged, native, navaid.