0 past simple and past participle of reciprocate
1 to share the same feelings as someone else, or to behave in the same way as someone else:
Under that system, workers had taken those higher-than-minimal wages as a token of consideration, and they reciprocated by working with more-than-minimal effort.
I saw this reciprocated displacement involving the same individuals continue for up to four events.
Apparently, when parents' support is not reciprocated, the imbalance is a source of disappointment.
Moreover, actual deeds of unselfish and cooperative behavior are often reciprocated.
In contrast to adult children, very few grandchildren reciprocated financial transfers by means of instrumental assistance in either 1996 or 2002.
Another example is voting: in what way is voting in a national election individually reciprocated?
It was far from clear that this feeling was reciprocated.
This conviction was based on "the old idea that knowledge came as a divine gift and should be reciprocated by gifts and gratitude".
