Usually means: Exchange of favors or services.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word quid pro quo:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. quid pro_quo: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quid pro_quo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quid pro_quo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quid pro_quo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quid pro_quo: Vocabulary.com
  6. quid pro_quo: Wordnik
  7. quid pro_quo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quid pro_quo: Wiktionary
  9. quid pro_quo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. quid pro_quo: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. quid pro_quo: Dictionary.com
  12. quid pro_quo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Quid Pro_Quo (album), Quid Pro_Quo (film), Quid Pro Quo, Quid pro_quo (disambiguation), Quid pro quo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. quid pro_quo: Rhymezone
  15. quid pro_quo: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. Quid pro Quo: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. quid pro_quo: Free Dictionary
  18. quid pro_quo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. quid_pro_quo: Foreign Words and Phrases
  20. quid pro_quo: Dictionary/thesaurus

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