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reciprocation

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re⋅cip⋅ro⋅ca⋅tion

  [ri-sip-ruh-key-shuhn]
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–noun
1. an act or instance of reciprocating.
2. a returning, usually for something given.
3. a mutual giving and receiving.
4. the state of being reciprocal or corresponding.
Origin:
1520–30; < L reciprocātiōn- (s. of reciprocātiō). See reciprocate, -ion
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re·cip·ro·ca·tion   (rĭ-sĭp'rə-kā'shən)   
n.  

  1. An alternating back-and-forth movement.

  2. The act or fact of reciprocating; interchange.

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reciprocation 
1530, from L. reciprocationem (nom. reciprocatio) "retrogression, alternation, ebb," from reciprocatus, pp. of reciprocare "move back and forth," from reciprocus (see reciprocal).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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