[syn: reciprocal, mutual]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mutual \Mu"tu*al\, a. [F. mutuel, L. mutuus, orig., exchanged,
borrowed, lent; akin to mutare to change. See Mutable.]
1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and
giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal;
interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance,
aversion, etc.
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Conspiracy and mutual promise. --Sir T. More.
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Happy in our mutual help,
And mutual love. --Milton.
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A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual
between the sisters. --G. Eliot.
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2. Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or
things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual
happiness; a mutual effort. --Burke.
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A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual
weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
--Bentley.
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Note: This use of mutual as synonymous with common is
inconsistent with the idea of interchange, or
reciprocal relation, which properly belongs to it; but
the word has been so used by many writers of high
authority. The present tendency is toward a careful
discrimination.
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Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something
reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people
have mutual ancestors? --P. Harrison.
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Mutual insurance, agreement among a number of persons to
insure each other against loss, as by fire, death, or
accident.
Mutual insurance company, one which does a business of
insurance on the mutual principle, the policy holders
sharing losses and profits pro rata.
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Syn: Reciprocal; interchanged; common.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mutual
adj 1: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common
friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor"
[syn: common, mutual]
2: concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially
given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal
trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other
clubs" [syn: reciprocal, mutual] [ant: nonreciprocal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutual":
accessory, accompanying, associated, attendant, attending,
changeable, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant,
coefficient, coincident, collaborative, collateral, collective,
collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, combined, commensal,
common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist,
communistic, communitarian, commutable, commutative, commutual,
complementary, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent,
concurring, conjoint, conjunct, connected, conniving, convertible,
cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, correlative, coupled,
ecumenic, equal, equalizing, equivalent, even, exchanged, fellow,
general, give-and-take, harmonious, harmonized, in common,
interactive, interchangeable, interchanged, joined, joint,
noncompetitive, paired, parallel, permutable, popular, public,
reciprocal, reciprocating, reciprocative, related, respective,
retaliatory, returnable, shared, simultaneous, social, socialistic,
societal, standard, swapped, switched, symbiotic, synergetic,
synergic, synergistic, traded, transposed, twin, two-way,
uncompetitive, united
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Mutual, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 132
Housing Units (2000): 51
Land area (2000): 0.136140 sq. miles (0.352600 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.136140 sq. miles (0.352600 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53480
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.079243 N, 83.638167 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mutual, OH
Mutual
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Mutual, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 76
Housing Units (2000): 38
Land area (2000): 0.262126 sq. miles (0.678902 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.262126 sq. miles (0.678902 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50150
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.229816 N, 99.167704 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73853
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mutual, OK
Mutual