transcription, транскрипция: [ si:sɔ: ]
also see-saw
( seesaws, seesawing, seesawed)
1.
A seesaw is a long board which is balanced on a fixed part in the middle. To play on it, a child sits on each end, and when one end goes up, the other goes down.
There was a sandpit, a seesaw and a swing in the playground.
N-COUNT
2.
In a seesaw situation, something continually changes from one state to another and back again.
...a seesaw price situation.
ADJ : ADJ n
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Seesaw is also a noun.
Marriage, however, is an emotional seesaw.
N-COUNT : usu sing
3.
If someone’s emotions see-saw , or a particular situation see-saws , they continually change from one state to another and back again.
The Tokyo stock market see-sawed up and down.
VERB : V