Take turns

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English

Verb

to take turns

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: To do the same thing one after the other; do something in turns.

1. We 'take turns to answer the phone.

   round-robin's scheduling arranges to have all teams or players take turns playing each other

Translations

• Finnish: vuorotella
• Russian: сменяться, чередоваться
• Chinese: 轮班,轮换,交替

Synonyms

• alternate

it:take turns