reciprocity
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The mutual exchange of obligations or benefits underpinning a bargain between parties.
The reciprocity of the covenants meant that each party's duty was conditioned on the other's performance.
Business noun
The principle of returning a concession with one of comparable value.
We moved on payment terms and expected reciprocity on the volume commitment.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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