give or take

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   plus or minus a small amount

   “it is a mile away, give or take a few hundred yards”

Questions about give or take

What does give or take mean?

give or take means "plus or minus a small amount".

Is give or take a common word?

give or 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.