give or take

give or take

English

Adverb

give or take

1. (informal) Approximately; plus or minus some unknown amount.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:approximately

   He was six feet tall, give or take.

2. (informal) Approximately; within a certain margin of error.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:approximately

   six months, give or take a few days

   • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎:

     Individual episodes are still thrilling and often quite striking, give or take some pitch-black battle scenes. But the gradual ramping up of the plotting that has grown steadily in the past three seasons crossed some invisible Maginot line this year, where the formerly acceptable trade-offs of focus for fun are no longer quite so taken for granted.

Related terms

• give and take

Translations

approximately — See also translations at approximately

Finnish: likimain (fi), suurinpiirtein Galician: máis ou menos Greek: πάνω κάτω (el) n (páno káto) Hungarian: plusz-mínusz egy/egynéhány, esetleg valamivel​/​valamennyivel több vagy kevesebb Polish: z grubsza (pl), mniej więcej (pl)