Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An alternating back-and-forth movement.
- noun The act or fact of reciprocating; interchange.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of taking the reciprocal (of a curve, proposition, or quantity).
- noun In geometry, the correlation of two reciprocal figures. See
reciprocal , a., 4. - noun A going back and forth; alternation of movement.
- noun The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning: as, the reciprocation of kindnesses.
- noun In logic, the relation of two propositions each the converse of the other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning.
- noun Alternate recurrence or action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
reciprocating ;interchange of acts; amutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness. - noun
Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides;oscillation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making or doing something in return
- noun alternating back-and-forth movement
- noun mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The concept of "free riding" emphasizes the fact that traditional offline institutions expect and require reciprocation from the majority of their members for their continued existence.
Boing Boing 2008
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I feel that an after luncheon speaker should reciprocate as best he may and the only thing I can do, by way of reciprocation is to get on with my subject.
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If he’s been and continues to be good to you, reciprocation is the honorable thing to do.
gardener thoughts 2007
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He really believes in nature, and values life for the power of what Johnson calls reciprocation of benevolence.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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There's been a genuine reciprocation, which is an essential element of any good exchange.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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It does seem that some kind of reciprocation is in order.
The WritingYA Weblog: Odd Lots tanita davis 2007
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A person might feel suspicious when you hand him a flower, for example, because he might think you're trying to invoke the very strong psychological phenomenon of "reciprocation": When someone gives you something or does something for you, you feel you must reciprocate.
Slate Magazine 2009
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A person might feel suspicious when you hand him a flower, for example, because he might think you're trying to invoke the very strong psychological phenomenon of "reciprocation": When someone gives you something or does something for you, you feel you must reciprocate.
Slate Magazine 2009
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It was just the kind of reciprocation toward your fellow man the Bible demands.
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First, in subsequent negotiations and interactions, we can be more cognizant of the techniques that the sales people were using; "Oh, this is the 'reciprocation' technique, don't feel that you need to reciprocate.
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