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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give or take

Currently, Musk is worth $800 billion, give or take.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026

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 ● Feb. 10, 2026

She stuck to her normal diet, give or take a few pregnancy cravings, and did strength and conditioning training throughout her pregnancy, stopping "a week or two before" giving birth.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Each of them had gone from clucking animal to oven-ready roaster in ten minutes, give or take.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan