reciprocation as a noun: - 1
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reciprocation
noun
1 reciprocation
The act of making or doing something in return.
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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2 reciprocation
Alternating back-and-forth movement.
3 reciprocation
Mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information).
synonyms: give-and-take, interchange.
Roget 12:
reciprocalness
etc.
adj.†;
reciprocity,
reciprocation;
mutuality,
correlation,
interdependence,
interrelation,
connection,
link,
association;
interchange
etc.
148;
exchange,
barter.
reciprocator,
reprocitist.
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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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Moby thesaurus: Lissajous figure, alternation, back-and-forth, balance, battledore and shuttlecock, boomerang, coequality, comeback, coming and going, communion, community, commutation, cooperation, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, correspondence, counter, counterblast, counterblow, counterchange, counterstroke, cross fire, ebb and flow, equilibrium, equipollence, equivalence, exchange, flux and reflux, give-and-take, interchange, intermutation, interplay, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, lex talionis, measure for measure, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, permutation, proportionality, quid pro quo, reciprocality, reciprocity, recoil, relativity, reply, retaliation, retort, return, rhythmic play, seesaw, seesawing, sine wave, something for something, symmetry, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetering, tit for tat, to-and-fro, tottering, transposal, transposition, ups and downs, wigwag ... show more.
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