give-and-take

give-and-take
n
1. cooperation, interaction, joint effort, mutual effort, collaboration; reciprocity, Inf. back scratching, exchange of favors, bartering, Chiefly U.S. logrolling; compromising, finding a happy medium or a middle ground.
2. banter, bantering, badinage, raillery, back-and-forth, volleying, crossfire; interchange, exchange, conversation, Inf. rapping, Inf. shooting the breeze or the bull.

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