Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reciprocal condition or relationship.
- noun A mutual or cooperative interchange of favors or privileges, especially the exchange of rights or privileges of trade between nations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Reciprocal action or relation; free interchange; mutual responsiveness in act or effect: as, reciprocity of benefits or of feeling; reciprocity of influence.
- noun Equality of commercial privileges between the subjects of different, governments in each other's ports, with respect to shipping or merchandise, to the extent established by treaty.
- noun In the Kantian philosophy, mutual action and reaction in the strict, mechanical sense.
- noun In geom., the mutual relationship between points and straight lines in a plane, or points and planes in space, etc.; duality.
- noun the proposition that the number of invariants of the nth order in the coefficients possessed by a binary quautic of the pth degree is equal to the number of invariants of the order p in the coefficients possessed by a quantic of the nth degree.
- noun Synonyms Exchange, interchange, reciprocation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mutual action and reaction.
- noun Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation.
- noun a treaty concluded between two countries, conferring equal privileges as regards customs or charges on imports, or in other respects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
characteristic of beingreciprocal , e.g. of a relationship between people - noun a
reciprocal relationship - noun a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
- noun the
mutual exchange ofrights ,privileges orobligations betweennations - noun psychology the
responses ofindividuals to theactions of others
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
- noun mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges
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Examples
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This is what I call reciprocity, Mom said, holding a pie dish on one palm.
The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010
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This is what I call reciprocity, Mom said, holding a pie dish on one palm.
The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010
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They're anti-Western, which means anti-Christian and they want to kind of be clear about that and they talk about what they call reciprocity to say, look, we welcome you into the west.
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If they boiled down to a doctrine, it was a violent form of jihad, the holy duty of all Muslims, to make God's word victorious; or just what he called "reciprocity", an eye for an eye.
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This is a very important issue, which we call reciprocity, and this has been followed in the United States for years.
Trade Observatory 2010
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Obama could be forgiven for expecting greater reciprocity from the bankers — something more than the equivalent of a Hallmark card and a box of penny candy.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies 2010
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What! You expected reciprocity from the obamasiah?
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war? 2010
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Need built in reciprocity in information exchange.
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Was there any reciprocity from the other side or appreciation from the voters that he never hit back or even just defended himself from his partisan opponents?
How dare they, Jack Cafferty? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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Austro-Hungarian prisons lay in "reciprocity diplomacy."
petitfour commented on the word reciprocity
When you're good to Mama, Mama's good to you.
April 4, 2007
dontcry commented on the word reciprocity
When Mama's not happy, ain't nobody happy.
May 2, 2008