Usually means: Exchange of favors or services.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word quid pro quo:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. quid pro quo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quid pro quo: Merriam-Webster
  3. quid pro quo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quid pro quo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quid pro quo: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quid pro quo: Vocabulary.com
  7. quid pro quo: Wordnik
  8. quid pro quo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quid pro quo: Wiktionary
  10. quid pro quo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quid pro quo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. quid pro quo: Dictionary.com
  13. quid pro quo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Quid Pro Quo (album), Quid Pro Quo (film), Quid Pro Quo, Quid pro quo (disambiguation), Quid pro quo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. quid pro quo: Rhymezone
  16. quid pro quo: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. Quid pro Quo: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. quid pro quo: FreeDictionary.org
  19. quid pro quo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. quid pro quo: Foreign Words and Phrases
  21. quid pro quo: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. quid pro quo: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. quid pro quo: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Quid pro quo: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. Quid Pro Quo: Investopedia
  12. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. Quid-pro-quo, quid pro quo: Legal dictionary
  14. Quid Pro Quo, Quid-pro-quo: Financial dictionary
  15. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quid pro quo: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. QUID PRO QUO, QUID PRO QUO, QUID PRO QUO: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. quid pro quo: A Word A Day

(Note: See quid_pro_quos as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (quid pro quo)

noun:  Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
noun:  (historical) Substitution of one drug for another.
noun:  Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
noun:  A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
noun:  An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.
noun:  (law) Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.

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