quid pro quo as a noun: - 1
quid pro quo
noun
1 quid pro quo
Something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises.
synonym: quid.
Roget 973:
reward,
recompense,
remuneration,
meed,
guerdon†,
reguerdon†;
price.
[payment for damage or debt]
indemnity,
indemnification;
quittance;
compensation;
reparation,
redress,
satisfaction;
reckoning,
acknowledgment,
requital,
amends,
sop;
atonement,
retribution;
consideration,
return,
quid pro quo.
salvage,
perquisite;
vail
etc.
(donation)
784†.
douceur [Fr.],
bribe;
hush money,
smart money†;
blackmail,
extortion;
carcelage†;
solatium†.
allowance,
salary,
stipend,
wages,
compensation;
pay,
payment;
emolument;
tribute;
batta†,
shot,
scot;
bonus,
premium,
tip;
fee,
honorarium;
hire;
dasturi†,
dustoori†;
mileage.
crown
etc.
(decoration of honor)
877.
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Roget 30:
compensation,
equation;
commutation;
indemnification;
compromise;
etc.
774
neutralization,
nullification;
counteraction
etc.
179;
reaction;
measure for measure,
retaliation,
etc.
718
equalization;
etc.
27;
robbing Peter to pay Paul.
set-off,
offset;
make-weight,
casting-weight;
counterpoise,
ballast;
indemnity,
equivalent,
quid pro quo;
bribe,
hush money;
amends
etc.
(atonement)
952;
counterbalance,
counterclaim;
cross-debt,
cross-demand.
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Roget 147:
substitution,
commutation;
supplanting
etc.
v.;
metaphor,
metonymy
etc.
(figure of speech)
521.
[Thing substituted]
substitute,
ersatz,
makeshift,
temporary expedient,
replacement,
succedaneum;
shift,
pis aller [Fr.],
stopgap,
jury rigging,
jury mast,
locum tenens,
warming pan,
dummy,
scapegoat;
double;
changeling;
quid pro quo,
alternative.
representative
etc.
(deputy)
759;
palimpsest.
price,
purchase money,
consideration,
equivalent.
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Roget 148:
interchange,
exchange;
commutation,
permutation,
intermutation;
reciprocation,
transposition,
rearrangement;
shuffling;
alternation,
reciprocity;
castling
(at chess);
hocus-pocus.
interchangeableness†,
interchangeability.
recombination;
combination
etc.
48.
barter
etc.
794;
tit for tat
etc.
(retaliation)
718;
cross fire,
battledore and shuttlecock;
quid pro quo.
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Roget 718:
retaliation,
reprisal,
retort,
payback;
counter-stroke,
counter-blast,
counterplot,
counter-project;
retribution,
lex talionis [Lat.];
reciprocation
etc.
(reciprocity)
12.
tit for tat,
give and take,
blow for blow,
quid pro quo,
a Roland for an Oliver,
measure for measure,
diamond cut diamond,
the biter bit,
a game at which two can play;
reproof valiant,
retort courteous.
recrimination
etc.
(accusation)
938;
revenge
etc.
919;
compensation
etc.
30;
reaction
etc.
(recoil)
277.
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Roget 794:
barter,
exchange,
scorse†,
truck system;
interchange
etc.
148.
a Roland for an Oliver;
quid pro quo;
commutation,
composition;
Indian gift [U.S.].
trade,
commerce,
mercature†,
buying and selling,
bargain and sale;
traffic,
business,
nundination†,
custom,
shopping;
commercial enterprise,
speculation,
jobbing,
stockjobbing†,
agiotage†,
brokery†.
deal,
dealing,
transaction,
negotiation,
bargain.
free trade.
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Moby thesaurus: agency, alternation, balance, ballast, battledore and shuttlecock, blow for blow, change, coaction, commutation, complementary distribution, concurrence, consideration, cooperation, counterbalance, counterchange, counterpoise, counterweight, cross fire, delegation, deputation, deputyship, displacement, engagement, equipoise, equivalent, exchange, give-and-take, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, intermutation, interplay, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, law of retaliation, lex talionis, like for like, makeweight, measure for measure, mesh, meshing, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, offset, permutation, power of attorney, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement, representation, retaliation, seesaw, setoff, something for something, something in return, something of value, subrogation, substitution, supersedence, superseding, supersedure, supersession, supplantation, supplanting, supplantment, switch, talion, tit for tat, transposal, transposition, vicariousness ... show more.
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