mutual assistance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmutualandassistance
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mutual
adjective
uk/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/us/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/
(of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing the same thing to or for ...
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assistance
noun[U]
uk/əˈsɪs.təns/us/əˈsɪs.təns/
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(Definition ofmutualandassistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Species that provide each othermutualassistancehave a survival advantage.
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The second form of collective support ismutualassistancewithin the family.
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We will try to show that an account of market relationships asmutualassistancecan still be coherent and credible.
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But that minimal condition may not be sufficient to ensure that, if the proposal is accepted, the resulting relationship will be perceived asmutualassistance.
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As their names implied, mutual benefit societies preached self-help andmutualassistance.
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Relationships bring with them expectations ofmutualassistance, and are understood to imply strong sense of reciprocity.
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What doesmutualassistancemean in these contexts?
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An analysis of market relationships asmutualassistanceprovides a framework for thinking about such questions.
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An 'inherent' right meant that it could 'allow for treaties ofmutualassistancefor the purpose of collective defence - that is alliances'.
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In such formations, combat takes place according to descent group logic of grudge resolution andmutualassistancerather than political objectives.
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How then can the idea of market relationships asmutualassistancebe reconciled with that principle?
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Mutualassistancebetween distant relatives (cousins, in-laws) was on the equivalent-exchange basis.
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Questions ofmutualassistancemight have led members to support public provision of benefit through these lines of identity.
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The first health insurance funds were the societies ofmutualassistancefor workmen of the 1850s.
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The authors state that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries partners providedmutualassistancein cultivating their farms.
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The exchange of ideas is paired withmutualassistanceand the exchange of goods, which together maintain and reinforce social relations.
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Arguably, this implies that transactions whose terms reflect major asymmetries of market power are unlikely to be understood asmutualassistance.
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Crassons might also have explored further the notions of fraternity andmutualassistancewhich permeated more voluntary associations.
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Miserable as their living and working conditions were, a sense ofmutualassistanceamong the slum-dwellers, especially among solitary people, did exist.
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