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Definition of "reciprocity" []

  • 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. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "reciprocity" in a sentence
  • "This is what I call reciprocity, Mom said, holding a pie dish on one palm."
  • "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."
  • "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."