give and take
nounDefinition
C2 [U] willingness to accept suggestions from another person and give up some of your own: In every friendship there has to be some give and take.Reciprocating › [S] US an exchange of ideas or statements: The candidates engaged in a lively give and take, witnessed by a huge television audience.Debate and discussion
(Definition of give and take noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- another determiner, pronoun (DIFFERENT)
- each other pronoun
- it takes two to tango idiom
- mutual adjective
- mutually adverb
- one another pronoun
- one good turn deserves another idiom
- reciprocal adjective
- reciprocate verb
- reciprocity noun
- requite verb
- return noun (EXCHANGE)
- return noun (GIVING BACK)
- return verb (EXCHANGE)
- two-way adjective (RELATIONSHIP)
- unrequited adjective
- you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours idiom
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