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Bilateral; two-sided; mutual; interchanged. Reciprocal obligations are duties owed by one individual to another and vice versa. A reciprocal contract is one in which the parties enter into mutual agreements. Reciprocal laws are statutes of one state that give rights and privileges to the citizens of another state if that state extends similar privileges to the citizens of the first state. A common example is the Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, which is a uniform law adopted in a majority of jurisdictions, by which a tribunal in the state where a wife or mother resides is able to commence proceedings for Child Support against a husband or father who resides in another state. reciprocal adjective alternating, bilateral, common, commutual, complemental, complementary, contingent, correlative, corresponding, give and take, interchangeable, interconnected, interdependent, interrelated, mutual, mutuus, parallel, reciprocative, requited, responded to, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, returned, two-sided Associated concepts: reciprocal agreements, reciprocal promises, reciprocal wills See also: coequal, cognate, common, complement, correlate, correlative, counterpart, equivalent, related, same How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He said reciprocals allow profits to be passed down to members in the form of subscriber accounts, such as patronage dividends. But their reciprocals can be viewed as the expected number of events that will contain one such undesirable event or the expected length of time that will contain one unit time of such a desirable state being unavailable. The individual means were weighted by using reciprocals of posterior variances, so ratios with more variance were given less weight in the summary ratios. |
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