reciprocal obligation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreciprocalandobligation
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reciprocal
adjective
uk/rɪˈsɪp.rə.kəl/us/rɪˈsɪp.rə.kəl/
A reciprocal action or arrangement involves two people or groups of people who behave in the same way or agree to help each other and give each ...
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obligation
noun
uk/ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑː.bləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the fact that you are obliged to ...
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Then there is thereciprocalobligationimposed upon employees to give notice.
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This is confirmed by thereciprocalobligationentered into by those countries to come to each other's assistance if either of them is attacked.
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Instead of being citizens in a society which is based on the principle ofreciprocalobligation, we have become consumers in a large internal market.
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It is a contract of bilateral andreciprocalobligation.
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On the other side there is thisreciprocalobligationimposed upon the alien who has been naturalised.
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A wife must provide her husband with details of her income, but there is noreciprocalobligationon him.
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It also said that it must be recognised that the use of the power implies areciprocalobligationon the statutory services to provide the support that the patient needs.
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We have to meet areciprocalobligationto bestow some form of benefit on them not only while they are in service but after they leave service.
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It is areciprocalobligation.
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This is a collective andreciprocalobligation.
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But teachers, who generally live as foreigners in the village community, understand these moments as opportunities to engage in reciprocal obligations with the villagers.
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There are other ways of temporally decoupling reciprocal obligations of welfare recipients and their paymasters.
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The human rights framework also includes notions of responsibilities and reciprocal obligations.
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The event is initiated when one town invites to host and challenge another town; this is typically precipitated by a good harvest or by areciprocalobligationto host.
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The generation gap, when reciprocal obligations are not onerous, allows us to take each other as we are.
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In terms of how reciprocal obligations are discharged, wide scope exists for individual moral choices, as perceived offences and antagonisms work themselves to the surface in voluntary actions.
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But their social prestige was intimately bound up with prescribed celibacy, and their ethos was based on rejecting the web of reciprocal obligations associated with family life.
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