in kind

prep_phrase

Etymology

Calque of Latin in specie.

  1. derived from in specie

Definitions

  1. In the form of goods and services rather than money.

    • How much did he give? – Hard to say. It was all in kind.
    • The pay is OK, but the real attraction is all the benefits in kind.
  2. With goods or services (as opposed to cash).

    • I made some donations to the charity, not in money, but in kind, such as non-perishable food.
  3. In a reciprocal manner

    In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in kind. 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