Usually means: Alternating actions between participants sequentially.
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  1. take turns: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take turns: Merriam-Webster
  3. take turns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  5. take turns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. take turns: Wiktionary
  7. take turns: Dictionary.com
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  9. take turns: FreeDictionary.org
  10. take turns: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. take turns: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. take turns: Financial dictionary

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  1. take turns: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take turns)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, polite) Of two or more people, to do the same thing one after another, taking one another's place alternately.

Similar:
alternate, take it in turns, alternize, take one's turn, rotate, take a turn, interchange, switch, swap over, ride and tie, more...

Phrases:
take it in turns, to take turns, more...

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Similar:
alternate, take it in turns, alternize, take one's turn, rotate, take a turn, interchange, switch, swap over, ride and tie, more...

Phrases:
take it in turns, to take turns, more...



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