English Explanatory Dictionary

give or take

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Approximately; plus or minus some unknown amount.
  2. Approximately; within a certain margin of error.

Word forms

give or take

Etymology

First use appears c. 1958. See cite below.

Synonyms

-ish about all but almost approaching around by and large circa close close to essentially for all practical purposes fornigh give or take imprecisely just about kind of loosely more or less nearly near nearabout nigh on odd or so plus or minus roundly roughly say some -some sort of thereabout virtually well-nigh ±

Related words

give and take

Translations

Finnish: likimain Finnish: suurinpiirtein Galician: máis ou menos Greek: πάνω κάτω Hungarian: plusz-mínusz egy/egynéhány Hungarian: esetleg valamivel/valamennyivel több vagy kevesebb Indonesian: kurang lebih Polish: z grubsza Polish: mniej więcej Portuguese: mais ou menos Spanish: más o menos Spanish: plus minusve
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