give and take

1. 1.

   make mutual concessions

   “In life you have to give and take”

   Broadercompromise

Questions about give and take

What does give and take mean?

give and take means "make mutual concessions".

Is give and take a common word?

give and take is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.