0 the fact of feeling or behaving towards someone else in the same way as they feel or behave towards you:
Our relationship is based upon reciprocation.
"There has always been a reciprocation between audiences and dancers," she said.
She had liked him for a while, but had never considered any possibility of reciprocation.
"We gave so much for you, where's the reciprocation?" he shouted.
A perception that the physician has somehow cheated on that expected reciprocation is prone to evoke a most strident form of aggression.
This terminology reflected the role of kinship in traditional society as a network of obligation and reciprocation holding society together.
It may be true that, morally speaking, the rights of economic citizenship must be in place before we can fairly enforce reciprocation for benefits received.
Yet others argue that all altruistic acts are reinforced by social reciprocation.
In this way, much of the otherwise suppressed and deflected hostility between female affinal and kin relations is expressed through reciprocation and non-reciprocation in gham-khadi.
