in kind
prep_phraseEtymology
Calque of Latin in specie.
- derived from in specie
Definitions
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.
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.
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