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give voice |
give way |
give way to |
give-and-go |
give-and-take
| give-up the ghost
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give-and-take
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun give-and-take has 3 senses
- give-and-take(n = noun.communication) discussion, word - an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" is a kind of language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication
- give-and-take(n = noun.communication) backchat, banter, raillery - light teasing repartee; Array is a kind of repartee
- give-and-take(n = noun.act) interchange, reciprocation - mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information); Array is a kind of interaction
has particulars: argument, argumentation, debate, deliberation, conference, group discussion, panel discussion, post-mortem, postmortem, public discussion, ventilation, dialogue, negotiation, talks
has particulars: badinage, persiflage
has particulars: reciprocity, cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilization, dealings, traffic
THESAURUS
give-and-take
abatement of differences, accommodation, adjustment, agency, alternation, arrangement, badinage, balance, ballast, banter, bargain, barter, bartering, battledore and shuttlecock, boomerang, brokerage, buying and selling, chaff, changeable, colloquial discourse, colloquy, comeback, communication, communion, commutable, commutation, commutative, composition, compromise, concession, consideration, conversation, converse, conversing, convertible, cooperation, cop-out, counter, counterbalance, counterblast, counterblow, counterchange, counterpoise, counterstroke, counterweight, cross fire, deal, dealing, defensibility, desertion of principle, discourse, doing business, drumhead justice, dueness, equal, equalizing, equipoise, equitableness, equity, equivalent, evasion of responsibility, even, evenhandedness, exchange, exchanged, fooling, fooling around, giving way, good-natured banter, harmless teasing, horse trading, interchange, interchangeable, interchanged, intercourse, interlocution, intermutation, interplay, jape, jest, jive, jobbing, joke, josh, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, kidding, kidding around, lawfulness, legality, lex talionis, makeweight, measure for measure, meetness, merchandising, mutual, mutual admiration, mutual concession, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, nemesis, offset, permutable, permutation, persiflage, pleasantry, poetic justice, properness, propriety, quid pro quo, raillery, rallying, rapping, reciprocal, reciprocality, reciprocating, reciprocation, reciprocative, reciprocity, recoil, reply, retailing, retaliation, retaliatory, retort, retributive justice, return, returnable, ridicule, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, scales of justice, setoff, settlement, something for something, something of value, sport, standard, summary justice, surrender, swapped, swapping, switched, tit for tat, trade, traded, trading, trafficking, transposal, transposed, transposition, twit, understanding, verbal intercourse, warrantability, warrantedness, what is right, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling, yielding
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