GIVE AND TAKE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  mutual interaction; the activity of interchanging or reciprocating [n]  light teasing repartee [n]  an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" [v]  make mutual concessions; "In life you have to give and take"
	Synonyms:		backchat, banter, discussion, interchange, raillery, reciprocation, word
	See Also:		argument, argumentation, badinage, compromise, conference, dealings, debate, deliberation, dialogue, group discussion, interaction, language, negotiation, oral communication, panel discussion, persiflage, postmortem, public discussion, reciprocity, repartee, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, talks, traffic, ventilation, voice communication
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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