The Collaborative International Dictionary
back-and-forth \back"-and-forth`\ n. a discussion; give-and-take.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of back and forth English)
Usage examples of "back-and-forth".
About then, Goldfarb noticed Fred Hipple standing in the doorway and listening to the back-and-forth.
Imagine porous paper stretched tight under a silkscreen, healthy dollops of gold and saffron ink, smaller ones of chestnut, tiny, tiny pinpricks of some color paler than the winter sun, the sudden back-and-forth of the wedge, and while the wavy lines bleed into each other, the artist dips his fine brush in umber ink and paints on careful rosettes which spread like the ripples in a pond.
She was sure Sassinak had the same back-and-forth tug faced with someone that many generations removed, an uncertainty about what ‘age’ really meant.
This, they call the boustrophedon form because it mimics the back-and-forth pacing of an ox tied to a tether.
The casing is well protected even against the strength we were firing, but Nagy told us to shoot at the abdominal region, front and back, and give quick back-and-forth passes.
The Great Room lay behind them now, the back-and-forth of questions and answers inaudible.
At the speed of light, the back-and-forth exchange would have taken the better part of an hour mercifully condensed now to a few seconds by a very conservative computer that wasn't taking any chances of leaving out any information content.
Mounted in liquid glass, unable to breathe, was he to make back-and-forth forever, biting at mosquitoes?
Probably in epistolary format, back-and-forth between a range of fee clients and the wretches responding to them, my novel would partake of the collision of gullibility and indifference, intensity and disdain, all of it as systematized as an assembly line, the authors of the responses as indifferent to the meaning and central absurdity of the situation as swallows in a cathedral.
A that followed the speech, plus another discussion in the student union afterward with a couple hundred students and community activists (some of whom had driven three hours to be there), was a powerful back-and-forth about how to handle the coming deluge.
So he'd been forced to rely on his memory, and there had been many assignments, especially those in which he was meeting various contacts and had to switch back-and-forth between identities several times during one day, when his ability to recall and adapt had been taxed to the maximum.