Definition of "give-and-take" []

• The practice of compromise. (noun)
• Lively exchange of ideas or conversation: "the raucous give and take of American democracy” ( Charles Kuralt). (noun)

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• "In the same way that the Supreme Court benefits from the give-and-take of circuit splits, circuit courts are better able to appreciate the need for them to issue a precedential opinion when the district courts are in open disagreement."
• "Our system denies district judges the power to create precedent not because they are somehow unqualified to do so as individuals but because a single judge sitting alone is not subjected to the give-and-take among colleagues and the need to secure majority support that prevents an appellate judge from being a law unto herself."
• "Besides, who, in normal conversational give-and-take, has time to "stop and think"?"