Usually means: Pertaining to each one individually.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word respective:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. respective: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. respective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. respective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. respective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. respective: Vocabulary.com
  6. Respective, respective: Wordnik
  7. respective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. respective: Wiktionary
  9. respective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. respective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. respective: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Respective, respective: Dictionary.com
  13. respective: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. respective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Respective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. respective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. respective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. respective: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. respective: Free Dictionary
  20. respective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. respective: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. respective: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. respective: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. respective: Encyclopedia

(Note: See respectiveness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.
adjective:  (obsolete) Noticing with attention; careful; wary.
adjective:  (obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
adjective:  (obsolete) Fitted to awaken respect.
adjective:  (obsolete) Rendering respect; respectful; regardful.

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