give or take

Idioms  

1. Plus or minus a small amount, approximately, more or less. For example, We have ten acres of land, give or take a bit, or It should take a couple of hours, give or take. [Mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

One thing you have done right: Your withholdings are quite accurate, give or take a few hundred dollars.

From MarketWatch

Usually, at around this average—give or take, buyers step in.

From Barron's

And the wound had time to heal—a diagnosis Mr. Benoit makes 250 million years after the fact, give or take a few thousand millennia.

From The Wall Street Journal

For most investors, that would typically be between about 10% of their assets in gold, give or take about 5%, depending what else is in their portfolio.

From Barron's

For most investors, that would typically be between about 10% of their assets in gold, give or take about 5%, depending what else is in their portfolio.

From Barron's