0 something that is given to a person in return for something they have done:
1 something that is given or received in return for something else:
2 something that you give to someone in return for them giving something back to you:
They provide one good in order to get another as a quid pro quo.
For example, one family developed a quid pro quo agreement in which the teen's privileges became contingent on keeping compliant with his medications.
In a pattern of reciprocity, individuals contribute to each other's welfare, but without the interposition of an immediate quid pro quo.
The main differences are that such pay-offs are usually made from candidates' private campaign war chests and are part of a direct quid pro quo.
Market pay is a quid pro quo for market work; and the quids are paid only after (but soon after) receipt of the quos.
In a private market, provision activities take place as individual buyers engage in quid pro quo relationships with sellers of goods and services.
Contracts are transient and externally enforced, guaranteed by a quid pro quo exchange.
Not all interaction is mediated through the interest-furthering quid pro quo.
