reciprocate
"There has always been a reciprocation between audiences and dancers," she said.
She had liked him for a while, but had never considered any possibility of reciprocation.
"We gave so much for you, where's the reciprocation?" he shouted.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Reciprocating
another
each other
give and take
it takes two to tangoidiom
mutual
mutuality
mutually
non-reciprocal
one anotherphrase
one good turn deserves anotheridiom
reciprocal
reciprocally
reciprocate
reciprocity
requite
return
scratch
turn
unrequited
you scratch my back and I'll scratch yoursidiom

Examples of reciprocation

reciprocation
A perception that the physician has somehow cheated on that expected reciprocation is prone to evoke a most strident form of aggression.
This terminology reflected the role of kinship in traditional society as a network of obligation and reciprocation holding society together.
It may be true that, morally speaking, the rights of economic citizenship must be in place before we can fairly enforce reciprocation for benefits received.
Yet others argue that all altruistic acts are reinforced by social reciprocation.
In this way, much of the otherwise suppressed and deflected hostility between female affinal and kin relations is expressed through reciprocation and non-reciprocation in gham-khadi.
Students must be made to understand the obligation of reciprocation and its consequences to professionalism.
Forty-seven percent of the triadic conversations were characterized by full reciprocation, in which each speaker both addressed and was addressed by the other two speakers.
The claim that these forms of reciprocation represent virtual, not actively intentional, exchanges can be borne out by considering some contrasting cases.
Across the century, leading by example was gradually replaced with arguments for the necessity of working-class abstinence without reciprocation.
Besides proving that reciprocation pays, these results show that the length and number of interactions matter when it comes to evaluating another agent's trustworthiness.
To understand these acts we have to think beyond the idea of reciprocation as an individual's reward for a particular act of cooperation.
But that cuts both ways and sound art has too often given way to the demands of the visual performance side without reciprocation.
Finally, only 13 % had no reciprocation between the twins.
It does not require, or get, reciprocation in the next turn.
As family labour inputs decline, family reciprocation in the form of basic needs provisioning and household asset transmission declines as well.
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