| Main Entry: | reciprocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interchange |
Synonyms: |
cooperation, exchange, mutuality, reciprocality, reciprocation |
| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repayment; rectification |
Synonyms: |
advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread, consideration, counterclaim, coverage, damages, defrayal, deserts, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, meet, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, quittance, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, recoupment, redress, reimbursement, remittal, remittance, remuneration, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, take-home, wage |
Antonyms: |
damage, deprivation, fine, forfeiture, loss, penalty |
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who aids another in achieving goal |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, agent, ally, associate, association, contact, friend, go-between, intermediary, kin, kindred, kinship, mentor, messenger, network, reciprocity, relation, relative, sponsor |
Antonyms: |
disconnection, gap, opening |
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that communicates, relates |
Synonyms: |
affinity, application, association, bearing, bond, commerce, communication, correlation, correspondence, intercourse, interrelation, kinship, link, marriage, nexus, partnership, reciprocity, relation, relationship, relevance, tie-in, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
Synonyms: |
aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots, coaction, coadjuvancy, coalition, collaboration, combination, combined effort, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confunction, conspiracy, doing business with, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, logrolling, participation, partisanship, partnership, playing ball, reciprocity, responsiveness, service, society, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, teaming, teamwork, unanimity, union, unity |
| Notes: | cooperation is always positive, collaboration is positive except in wartime (working with the enemy), and collusion is always negative (working together in secret for a dishonest purpose) |
Antonyms: |
blockage, delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
Synonyms: |
affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, approbation, approval, earnestness, enjoyableness, favor, geniality, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, reciprocity, responsiveness, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, wholeheartedness |
Antonyms: |
aloofness, coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | correlation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equating, equivalence |
Synonyms: |
alternation, analogue, complement, correspondence, correspondent, counterpart, interaction, interchange, interconnection, interdependence, interrelation, interrelationship, match, parallel, pendant, reciprocity, relationship |
Antonyms: |
difference, disassociation, disconnection, imbalance |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trade; deal |
Synonyms: |
barter, buying and selling, castling, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, dealing, interchange, interdependence, interrelation, network, quid pro quo, rearrangement, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement, revision, shift, shuffle, shuffling, substitution, supplanting, supplantment, swap, switch, tit for tat, traffic, transaction, transfer, transposing, transposition, truck |
| Main Entry: | give-and-take |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual concession |
Synonyms: |
adaptability, banter, collaboration, compromise, concession, cooperation, deal-making, exchange, offset, reciprocity, settlement, swap, trade, trade-off, wheeling and dealing |
| Main Entry: | interplay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interaction |
Synonyms: |
coaction, exchange, give-and-take, mesh, meshing, networking, reciprocation, reciprocity, team play, teamwork, tit for tat, transaction |