Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A process of compromise or accommodation.
WordNet
v. make mutual concessions; "In life you have to give and take"
Wikipedia
Give and take may refer to:
- Give and Take (magazine), a Christadelphian Bible magazine aimed at 7- to 11-year-old Sunday School children
- Give and Take (Smith), a 2005 public artwork on the campus of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
- Give and Take (John Lindberg album), 1982
- Give and Take (The Dynamic Superiors album), 1977
- Give and Take (Mike Stern album), 1997
- Give and Take (film), a 1928 silent film
- Give and Take, a 1978 album by UK psychedelic/space rock band Here & Now
Give And Take is the fourth album from The Dynamic Superiors, and their last on Motown Records. Released in 1977, it includes covers of Martha and the Vandellas' " Nowhere to Run" and Stevie Wonder's "All In Love Is Fair". It is also noted that singer Mariah Carey sampled the song "Here Comes That Feeling Again" for a song she recorded called "I Feel It" (co-produced by Mahogany) which was intended to be released on her album The Emancipation of Mimi, but was denied clearance for the use of the song by the songwriters (It was leaked out to the internet later, but still remains officially unreleased).
On (May 22, 2012), The Dynamic Superiors' Give And Take album was released on CD, not by Motown, but by Universal Records' "Soulmusic Records" imprint.
Give and Take, a sculpture by American artist Michael Smith, is located on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. It is situated on New York Street in front of the Herron School of Art and Design. The sculpture was made in 2005.
Give and Take is an album by American jazz double-bassist John Lindberg with George Lewis and Barry Altschul recorded in 1982 for the Italian Black Saint label.
Give and Take is an album by Mike Stern, released in 1997 through Atlantic Records. The album reached a peak position of number twelve on Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.
Give and Take is a lost 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine.
Usage examples of "give and take".
Swett was ready with Lincoln to give and take in storyland, as was Lamon, and either of them, and sometimes all of them, often dropped in upon Lincoln and gave him an hour's diversion from his exacting cares.
I enjoy the give and take of various personalities and situations.
He'd only meant to give and take a moment of pleasure, to satisfy a simple need.
After a little give and take and a phone call, we all trooped down the corridor and into the Director-General's office.
Soon Bond too learned not to fight the sea but always to give and take with the currents and eddies and not to struggle against them, to use judo tactics in the water.
Even so, some petty officers in the give and take of heavy labour on board ship might have dealt with the situation unofficially, but not Mayne.