reciprocity

IPA: rɛsɪprˈɑsɪti

The characteristic of being reciprocal, e.g. of a relationship between people.
A reciprocal relationship.
A relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.
(grammar) A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocal pronoun.
(international law) The mutual exchange of rights, privileges or obligations between nations. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocity (international relations).
(psychology) The responses of individuals to the actions of others.

Examples of "reciprocity" in Sentences

What! You expected reciprocity from the obamasiah?
Need built in reciprocity in information exchange.
Austro-Hungarian prisons lay in "reciprocity diplomacy."
This is what I call reciprocity, Mom said, holding a pie dish on one palm.
This is a very important issue, which we call reciprocity, and this has been followed in the United States for years.
Obama could be forgiven for expecting greater reciprocity from the bankers — something more than the equivalent of a Hallmark card and a box of penny candy.
Was there any reciprocity from the other side or appreciation from the voters that he never hit back or even just defended himself from his partisan opponents?
They're anti-Western, which means anti-Christian and they want to kind of be clear about that and they talk about what they call reciprocity to say, look, we welcome you into the west.
If they boiled down to a doctrine, it was a violent form of jihad, the holy duty of all Muslims, to make God's word victorious; or just what he called "reciprocity", an eye for an eye.