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Quid Pro Quo
/ˌkwɪd.pɹoʊˈkwoʊ/
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What does Quid Pro Quo mean?
noun
- Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
- Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
- A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
More meanings (3)
noun
- An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.
- Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.
- (historical) Substitution of one drug for another.
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/ˌkwɪd.pɹoʊˈkwoʊ/
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When calamity befell their innocent parishioners, when leprosy descended and took root in the Eight Islands, a quid pro quo was to be looked for.
M. Gillenormand had not accepted the quid pro quo.
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Because there is an exchange, a quid pro quo.
But as women, gaining economic autonomy, meet men in progressively bitterer competition, the rising masculine distrust and fear of them will be reflected even in the enchanted domain of marriage, and the husband, having yielded up most of his old rights, will begin to reveal a new jealousy of those that remain, and particularly of the right to a fair quid pro quo for his own docile industry.