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as in discussion
an exchange of views for the purpose of exploring a subject or deciding an issue
a give-and-take about what we should do Saturday night
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2
as in negotiation
the act or practice of each side giving up something in order to reach an agreement
negotiating the terms of the deal will require some give-and-take on both sides
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3
as in banter
good-natured teasing or exchanging of clever remarks
enjoyed the flirty give-and-take between the two romantic lead characters
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The couple of thousand or so fans in Detroit on Tuesday certainly shared Sting’s exuberance, generating a give-and-take energy that sustained throughout the 20-song, hour-and-45-minute performance, and these unquestionable highlights from it.
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Gary Graff, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2024
Even if everything the fighters contend is true and corroborated, their argument runs up against a conceptual hurdle in that NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL players are in unions that negotiate revenue shares as part of the give-and-take of collective bargaining, UFC fighters are independent contractors.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 July 2024
The give-and-take of an earlier era, when Lew Wasserman and his Universal crowd, for instance, played both sides gave way to a doctrinaire intensity.
—Michael Cieply, Deadline, 14 July 2024
To me, that was the sort of breach that should alarm anybody involved in the journalistic process where there’s a vigorous give-and-take about how to do a story, how to edit a story, the questions that an editor asks of a reporter and the development of it, the writing of it.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 July 2024
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Gary Graff, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2024
Even if everything the fighters contend is true and corroborated, their argument runs up against a conceptual hurdle in that NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL players are in unions that negotiate revenue shares as part of the give-and-take of collective bargaining, UFC fighters are independent contractors.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 July 2024
The give-and-take of an earlier era, when Lew Wasserman and his Universal crowd, for instance, played both sides gave way to a doctrinaire intensity.
—Michael Cieply, Deadline, 14 July 2024
To me, that was the sort of breach that should alarm anybody involved in the journalistic process where there’s a vigorous give-and-take about how to do a story, how to edit a story, the questions that an editor asks of a reporter and the development of it, the writing of it.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 July 2024
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“Give-and-take.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/give-and-take. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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