Crossword clues for in kind
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kind \Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, a.]
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Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.]
He knew by kind and by no other lore.
--Chaucer.Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
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Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. ``Come of so low a kind.''
--Chaucer.Every kind of beasts, and of birds.
--James iii.7.She follows the law of her kind.
--Wordsworth.Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed.
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Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds !
--Spenser.There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
--I Cor. xv. 39.Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers?
--Bacon.A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.
In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money.
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.
--Arbuthnot.Syn: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (paying or giving) with goods or services (as opposed to cash) 2 (context idiomatic English) In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind. prep.phr. (context usually after the noun English) In the form of goods and services rather than money.
WordNet
adv. with something of the same kind; "she pays him back in kind" [syn: in a similar way]
Wikipedia
In economics and finance, in kind refers to goods, services, and transactions not involving money or not measured in monetary terms. For example:
- Payment in kind, or barter: exchange of goods or services for other goods or services with no medium of exchange
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Income in kind: in particular
- Benefit in kind: employee benefits such as a company car or gym membership
- Tax in kind: such as a tithe from farmer's crops
- Calculation in kind: a type of accounting based on physical magnitudes and physical quantities rather than a common unit of account
- Gifts in kind: a kind of charitable giving in which, instead of giving money to buy needed goods and services, the goods and services themselves are given
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Usage examples of "in kind".
He'd gone from an almost painful deference to actually responding to her teasing in kind.
The USA had started using the deadly stuff several months before the Confederacy could answer in kind, but the Rebs had the knack now.
To be able to retaliate in kind against the Lizards brought a glow of anticipation to his sallow features.
And, Barr admitted, except that firing on it seemed to be a good way to convince the freighter to respond in kind.
It would have been nice to be able to reply in kind to the no doubt upcoming assault on his optic nerves.
Tallon answered in kind, locating them, and in only a few moments, Shiba took up the trail cry.
He could listen to them simultaneously or tune out the background and concentrate on a single individual who would respond in kind.
In any case he had a lot of remarkable talents, in intensity, if not in kind.
This time he resolved to reply in kind, and his own hands reached out for the creature's throat.