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What does give or take mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word give or take? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. (informal) Approximately; plus or minus some unknown amount.
  2. (informal) Approximately; within a certain margin of error.
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I've been a private eye for thirty-five years, give or take, and I've never run across anything like this.
And that, give or take a few sequences depicting extreme and aberrant weather conditions around the globe, is it.
Everything I tell you really did happen, give or take a few liberties of poetic licence.
They found that the mass extinction occurred 46,400 years ago, give or take 3,000 years.
The ankh is an ancient Egyptian symbol carried around by the Egyptian gods, normally signifying the ability to give or take life.
I have two Quarter Horse geldings, one age 22, by his papers, and the other is about the same age, give or take a year or two.

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