Usually means: Mutual exchange of privileges or benefits.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word reciprocal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. reciprocal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reciprocal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. reciprocal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. reciprocal: Vocabulary.com
  5. Reciprocal, reciprocal: Wordnik
  6. reciprocal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. reciprocal: Wiktionary
  8. reciprocal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. reciprocal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. reciprocal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. reciprocal: Dictionary.com
  12. reciprocal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. reciprocal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Reciprocal (disambiguation), Reciprocal (grammar), Reciprocal (mathematics), Reciprocal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Reciprocal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reciprocal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reciprocal: Rhymezone
  18. reciprocal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reciprocal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. reciprocal: FreeDictionary.org
  21. reciprocal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. reciprocal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. reciprocal: Merriam-Webster
  24. reciprocal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reciprocal: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. reciprocal: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Reciprocal (disambiguation), reciprocal: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reciprocal (disambiguation), Reciprocal (mathematics), reciprocal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. reciprocal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Reciprocal (disambiguation), reciprocal: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reciprocal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Reciprocal: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. reciprocal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reciprocal, reciprocal (recip): Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. RECIPROCAL: Power Engineering

(Note: See reciprocally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
adjective:  Mutually interchangeable.
adjective:  (grammar) Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
adjective:  (mathematics) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
adjective:  Done, given, felt, or owed in return.
noun:  (arithmetic) The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
noun:  (grammar) A construction expressing mutual action.

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