TAKE TURNS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take turns mean? 

• TAKE TURNS (verb)
  The verb TAKE TURNS has 1 sense:

1. do something in turns

  Familiarity information: TAKE TURNS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE TURNS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do something in turns

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

alternate; take turns

Context example:

We take turns on the night shift

Hypernyms (to "take turns" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take turns"):

spell (take turns working)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

By-and-by we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)