mutual support

collocation in English

meaningsofmutualandsupport

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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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support
noun
uk
/səˈpɔːt/
us
/səˈpɔːrt/
agreement with and encouragement for an idea, group, ...
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(Definition ofmutualandsupportfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmutual support

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The women still wanted to address local conflict, but in addition the group turned more and more into a social,mutualsupportnetwork.
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Figure 2 also demonstrates that themutualsupportwas asymmetrical.
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However, community women organisations include a myriad of age grades, thrift, welfare andmutualsupportgroups.
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Participants share their experiences, acknowledge vulnerability, sadness, and other emotional responses and providemutualsupport.
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Their primary function has been to providemutualsupportin dealing with household problems, notably food security and payment of school or medical fees.
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They formed groups formutualsupportthat agitated in their members' interests and in some cases had wider political goals.
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Support with regard to everyday working pressures centred mainly on peer support and mentoring and/ormutualsupportwithin peer groups.
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A general poverty of resources has taken its toll on immigrant households and their social networks ofmutualsupport.
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The development ofmutualsupport, reciprocal dependence, shared experiences and feelings, are sources of community and cohesion, and are the basis for social organisation.
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Correlations within the children's reports were in the expected directions, with friendship conflict negatively relating tomutualsupport.
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Mutualsupportgroup, informal exchanges, focused on interpersonal insight and disclosure.
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All three of these organizations have the general goals of facilitating communication between networks, providingmutualsupportand advocacy, and helping to build capacity.
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The community reiterated in slametan is one defined bymutualsupportand exchange and the cooperative work of women in the feeding of others.
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The commitment to mutual compensation is more general than the commitment tomutualsupport.
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These groupings are largely parochial, indigenous, cultural andmutualsupportbased.
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They relate most closely to the ordinary community members at either the level of community governance or that ofmutualsupportand welfare.
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Despite strict logical independence, however, metaethical and normative ethical views frequently cluster together, offeringmutualsupport.
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Mutualsupportgroup, informal exchanges, focussed on interpersonal insight and disclosure, lead by professionals.
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Fraternalism was a complex blend of individual responsibility andmutualsupport, drawing clear distinctions between the 38.
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