quid pro quo
名词 n.
英 /ˌkwɪd.pɹəʊˈkwəʊ/
美 /ˌkwɪd.pɹoʊˈkwoʊ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
— The misunderstanding of the word or the quid pro quo is the unintentional pun, and is related to it exactly as folly is to wit.
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Substitution of one drug for another.
— a knave Apothecary that administers the Physick, and makes the medicine, may doe infinite harme, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, etc.
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Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
— To deny that the arrangement was a quid pro quo would be laughably disingenuous.
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A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
— More importantly, the Chrysler bailout produced a quid pro quo wherein Congress agreed to pass bank deregulation legislation if banks agreed to convert substantial amounts of Chrysler's debt to equity.
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A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.; An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.
— Mr. P. did not consider that branch, strictly and technically speaking, public revenue; at least it did not arise from taxation, because those persons who had paid this money had received a full equivalent for the same; there was a quid pro quo on both sides; and this was not taxation, it was a sale; the parties therefore from whom this money was derived had not been taxed.
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Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.
— A quid pro quo complaint typically is lodged by an employee who has been denied opportunities because he or she refused a perpetrator's sexual advances or by an employee who has been denied opportunities because another employee obtained those opportunities by submitting to a perpetrator's sexual advances.
词源
Borrowed from Latin quid prō quō (literally “something for something”).
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