Countergift

Quick meaning: Countergift is a noun meaning A gift given in response to a gift received.

Meaning

A gift given in response to a gift received.

Example Sentences

And each gift in this enormous complex trails its own wake of counter-gifts and obligations to be fulfilled at a future date.

Whether the advice contained in this Envoy was or was not followed, is of no importance; but it certainly was the occasion of a counter-gift of a memorandum-book, possibly too fine a one for use […]

At micro-levels the measuring of equivalence for matching gift and counter-gift may be free, but for important transactions the community eventually comes to help its members by imposing agreed techniques for calculating requital.

Word Forms

• countergifts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include countergesture, counterresponse, counterreaction, countercall, countercriticism, counterreply.

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