rapport
IPA: ræpˈɔr
noun
- A relationship of mutual trust and respect. A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
- Relation; proportion; conformity.
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Examples of "rapport" in Sentences
- One of the many ways you can build rapport is to include some personal information about you and your family.
- She resists at first but they slowly gain a rapport from the 1940s into the 1970s as the civil rights movement swirls around them.
- That rapport is critical because trainers are convinced that a happy horse, who eats well and responds to attention in a spirited way, performs better.
- It creates a sort of scholarly "rapport" -- this use of commas -- between the gentility of the author and the assumed gentility of the reader, taking the latter into a kind of amiable partnership in ironic superiority.
- The risk of investing in Arenas' four-year, $80 million contract is mitigated by his long-term rapport with his new GM, who has maintained their relationship since Smith was an executive with the Warriors when Arenas beginning his career at Golden State.
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