reciprocal

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  1. adjective Concerning each of two or more persons or things.
  2. adjective Interchanged, given, or owed to each other: reciprocal agreements to abolish customs duties; a reciprocal invitation to lunch.
  3. adjective Performed, experienced, or felt by both sides: reciprocal respect.
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  • The feeling then was reciprocal, and he was proposed for the vacant seat. —  The Grand Old Man
  • Obligations and responsibilities among the groups are reciprocal, and although the nobility are able to extract favors from people living on their estates, they likewise must extend favors to their people.
  • Links must be permanent, free, one way, non-reciprocal (two ways) and static to our website —  GetAFreelancer.com New Projects
  • A membership to any Greater Wichita YMCA is reciprocal, meaning users can use any of the Greater Wichita YMCA facilities under the same membership. —  The Newton Kansan Home RSS
  • In his appeals to equal natural rights, Douglass was still able, in Myers's words, to be "hospitable to moderate affirmations of racial identity" and pride, while maintaining the need for long-term reciprocal racial assimilation. —  Claremont.org
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  1. From Latin reciprocus, alternating; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from New Latin as if *reciprocalis, from Latin reciprocus, returning, alternating, reciprocal (later Italian Portuguese reciproco =Spanish recíproco =Old French reciproque, later obsolete English reciprock); perhaps literally ‘moving backward and forward,’ from recus (from re-, back, + adjective formative -cus: see -ic) + procus (from pro, forward, + adjective formative -cus). Cf. reciprocous, reciprock.
 

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