negotiations; bargaining; haggling
Refers to back-and-forth discussion aimed at reaching an agreement, often involving compromise or price negotiation.
I haggled with the clerk over the price.
The labor-management negotiations continued until late at night.
やり取り is a general term for exchange of words or items, whereas 掛け合い emphasizes the interactive, often competitive or performative nature of the exchange.
rapid-fire comic dialogue; manzai with quick back-and-forth
Standard kanji spelling; high frequency in news contexts.
Search-only variant.
Rarely used kanji form.
Compound of 掛け (kake, continuative form of 掛ける 'to hang, to engage') + 合い (ai, continuative form of 合う 'to meet, to do together'), literally 'engaging with each other'.