take turns

verb

take turns

verb
1

Polite Of two or more people, to do the same thing one after another, taking one another's place alternately.

  • We take turns to answer the phone.
  • Round-robin scheduling arranges to have all teams or players take turns playing each other
Synonyms
alternate, take in turn, take it in turns

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