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  • noun Plural form of reciprocity.

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Examples

  • Will his non-interventionist impulses prevail, or will the Tea Party demand certain reciprocities for its help in winning the seat?

    Kelley Beaucar Vlahos: Rand Paul Drinks Tea, Turns Into Hawk? Kelley Beaucar Vlahos 2010

  • Related interdependencies, reciprocities and mutual support are evident within the manufacturing, retail and financial sectoral groups.

    Mondragon:Past Performance and Future Potential 2007

  • Ed said: "As for the other two reciprocities the experience of those are evidence that Canada had little to fear from tiny Newfoundland."

    The Newfoundland Nationalist orthodoxy Ed Hollett 2007

  • Related interdependencies, reciprocities and mutual support are evident within the manufacturing, retail and financial sectoral groups.

    Distributism: Past, Present and Future 2007

  • As for the other two reciprocities the experience of those are evidence that Canada had little to fear from tiny Newfoundland.

    The Newfoundland Nationalist orthodoxy Ed Hollett 2007

  • His heart sank within him when he perceived that despite all the legal reciprocities and safeguards prepared and written, the upshot of the matter amounted to this, that it depended upon the mere caprice — good or ill — of the woman he had met the day before in such an unfortunate way, whether he was to possess his houses for life or no.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • The rotary pro-cessus and its reestablishment of reciprocities.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • If the reciprocities of that old woman and that beautiful girl were such as to weave enrichments into both hearts, why should not all peoples, and all individuals, see in all others but a multiplication of the one each of us is, and that each is enhanced or diminished in value according to the concentrated worth of the whole?

    Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

  • Her lover, who was a seaman on board one of the Welsh traders, had often met her there, and a tranquil, uninterrupted walk it afforded them, for exchanging the reciprocities of their mutual affection.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 Various

  • All the old Christmas cheer is in these reciprocities of friendship that have lost every touch of condescension.

    By the Christmas Fire Samuel McChord Crothers

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