countergift
nounEtymology
From counter- + gift.
Definitions
A gift given in response to a gift received.
- Whether the advice contained in this Envoy was or was not followed, is of no importance; but it certainly was the occasion of a counter-gift of a memorandum-book, possibly too fine a one for use […]
- And each gift in this enormous complex trails its own wake of counter-gifts and obligations to be fulfilled at a future date.
- At micro-levels the measuring of equivalence for matching gift and counter-gift may be free, but for important transactions the community eventually comes to help its members by imposing agreed techniques for calculating requital.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for countergift. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA