Definition of "in kind" [in kind]

• In the form of goods and service rather than money. (adjective)
• With goods or services (as opposed to cash) (adverb)
• In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind. (adverb)

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• "*You may notice that the Delawarians in this book talk in kind of an irritating way."
• "Solesmes have established for it in their valuable publications, then we must admit that the melismata of the Gregorian Alleluia, even the longest of them, are much shorter than, and are different in kind from, the melismata of the jubilus to which the versus ad sequentias and the sequences proper were attached."
• "Two hundred pounds of salt pork we had on board, and in Sapele we took on the livestock in kind and quantity precisely as Warthrop prescribed: twelve goats, five young calves, and seven chimps."