Mutual /(?)/
Mu·tu·al
Mutual
a.
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Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.
Conspiracy and mutual promise.
Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love.
A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters.
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Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort.
A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have mutual ancestors?
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.