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Give and Take (policy)

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One of mutual for bearance and accommodation.

“[His] wife jogged along with him very comfortably with a give and take policy for many years.”—Hugh Conway.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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