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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mutual
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mutual friend (=someone who is a friend of both you and someone else)
▪ They went to a mutual friend’s home for dinner.
mutual acquaintance (=someone you and another person both know)
▪ He heard about the job through a mutual acquaintance.
mutual admiration (=that two or more people feel for each other)
▪ Their friendship was based on mutual admiration.
mutual benefit (=something good for both people, companies etc involved)
▪ Our two companies are working together for mutual benefit.
mutual cooperation (=between two people, groups etc)
▪ Because of the size of the task, mutual cooperation was essential.
mutual disarmament (=involving two countries)
▪ Each side claims to favour mutual disarmament.
mutual fund
mutual regard (=which people feel for each other)
▪ There seems to have been a genuine mutual regard between the two leaders.
mutual respect (=when two people respect each other)
▪ Their relationship is based on mutual respect.
mutual trust (=when people trust each other)
▪ an agreement made on the basis of mutual trust
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
acquaintance
▪ The men with the Brigade ties and their friends were running out of potential mutual acquaintances to describe.
▪ There was only one John of their mutual acquaintance in Brixton prison: John Hebden.
admiration
▪ There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration.
▪ Why should I require animals to join me in some mutual admiration society or even make them honorary members?
advantage
▪ It's a good plan which would be to our mutual advantage.
▪ To form one good mixed practice would be to our mutual advantage.
▪ Both of these railways have been most co-operative and we are developing a good relationship with them to mutual advantage.
▪ They must gather together and organize themselves in some manner to gain mutual advantage.
agreement
▪ And if no mutual agreement is found today, we must wait whatever time it takes to reach one.
▪ Paul permits temporary abstinence also but only by mutual agreement.
▪ The land claims commission has settled more than 11,000 cases by mutual agreement on compensation.
▪ A contract can also be terminated by mutual agreement of the parties.
▪ Whatever personal designs Robert the Bruce might have on the throne, he was unlikely to achieve them without some mutual agreement.
▪ The rules of the game are seen as fixed at any point in time by mutual agreement and changeable through mutual agreement.
▪ Changes to borders can come about only by mutual agreement and consent.
aid
▪ The principles of mutual aid are that members should be involved in a reciprocal supportive role.
▪ Though such competition frustrated him, Allen poured energies into welfare work, mutual aid, and preaching.
▪ The Co-operative movement was a form of mutual aid with a wider working-class appeal although it also largely excluded the poorest.
▪ First of all, we called it a mutual aid society.
▪ They join a rural community life and a society based on mutual aid.
▪ It is a close drawing together of two worlds and is there for mutual aid.
▪ They depend heavily on local mutual aid and are staffed largely by volunteers.
assistance
▪ Stalin had no intention of honouring previously signed mutual assistance treaties.
▪ Treaties on good-neighbourly relations and on co-operation and mutual assistance between government ministries were also finalized.
▪ There had been enormous economic advances, which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance.
▪ I would like to hear from anyone who works in this field and we could be of mutual assistance.
▪ The countries involved have pledged to offer mutual assistance in the event of a spill.
▪ The mutual assistance of harem owners in driving off non-reproductive males may be the basis of herd formation in the gelada baboon.
benefit
▪ Both management and operatives are locked into a closer relationship, with both mutual benefits and disadvantages.
▪ It is joint action for mutual benefit.
▪ Successful marriages so submerge the costs under mutual benefits that the cooperation can predominate; unsuccessful ones do not.
▪ In principle therefore payment of an Affiliation Fee would be an overt recognition of this vital link and mutual benefit. 5.
▪ Both Nunn and Solomon stressed the mutual benefits of a friendlier relationship.
▪ Perhaps I better explain that symbiosis is popularly defined as a relationship between two differing life forms for their mutual benefit.
▪ CollaborativeNetworking internal jobs can make so much economic sense that sometimes vital functions are outsourced to competitors, to mutual benefit.
consent
▪ During the meal, as if by mutual consent, they talked of other things, but it was difficult.
▪ I left home by mutual consent!
▪ If this is the case, the exemption no longer applies to couples living apart by mutual consent.
▪ Any disputes must be settled by mutual consent.
▪ Mutual consent An employment contract may be brought to an end by the mutual consent of the parties.
▪ One elderly woman quickly left the program by mutual consent.
▪ Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer.
cooperation
▪ This respectable sum is called the Reward for mutual cooperation.
▪ A good marriage is obviously a nonzero sum game, brimming with mutual cooperation.
▪ Most of the game is spent in mutual cooperation, with both players enjoying the consequent generous score.
dependence
▪ But it was a remarkable demonstration of allied unity and mutual dependence.
▪ The relationship between general practitioners and district health authorities needs to be explicitly recognised as one of mutual dependence rather than competition.
▪ If anything a mutual dependence was growing.
▪ The mutual dependence of profitability and growth, as we will see, makes the assessment of management motivation particularly problematical.
▪ In a way, it has to be put down to mutual dependence.
▪ The meal, like a ritual communion, had confirmed the curious, unspoken, mutual dependence which bound them.
▪ When two parties live in harmony, neither makes much fuss and mutual dependence may pass unobserved.
▪ There is much cooperation, co-existence and mutual dependence - but there is also dynamic and ruthless competition.
friend
▪ All of them were vaguely connected by work, or school, or mutual friends.
▪ Hey, brother, one thing: I remember I said a couple of things about our mutual friend.
▪ It was enough to have discovered one true mutual friend whose testimony could be relied upon.
▪ His earliest rape, of a 19year-old girl, happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend.
▪ We met through mutual friends a couple months ago, and we see each other most weekends.
▪ She was a staunch Methodist and a great admirer of our mutual friend Edna Jacques, of whom we often spoke.
▪ He did not say so, but I presumed that a mutual friend had told him about my separation and divorce.
fund
▪ Whilst I am still in favour of a mutual fund, I think the current risk banding is rubbish.
▪ Mellon has been trying to increase net income from fee-based businesses such as its Dreyfus Corp. mutual funds.
▪ We have these Fidelity mutual fund accounts: Equity Income, $ 22, 000.
▪ I am 39, and like so many of the baby boomers, I have invested in mutual funds.
▪ Masses of people who never went into stocks are pouring their life blood in mutual funds.
▪ And the ocean of money pouring into mutual funds provided the tide that lifted the stock market for most of the year.
▪ Institutional investors such as mutual funds are more skittish and can bail out after a few quarters of soft earnings.
▪ And mutual fund technology has blossomed, making it easy to shift from one fund to another.
funds
▪ I am 39, and like so many of the baby boomers, I have invested in mutual funds.
▪ A surprising number of mutual funds have already tumbled 8 %, 10 % or even more so far in 1996.
▪ Sure, you will boost performance if you manage to pick a few hot stocks or some superstar mutual funds.
▪ In comparison, just $ 22 billion was invested in mutual funds in 1990.
▪ That volatility has risen as the stocks become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a relatively few mutual funds.
▪ And in mutual funds, this was the year when almost every fund manager proved to be a genius.
help
▪ The mutual help system has to take into account things like holidays and emergency backup.
▪ Tolerance and under-standing are almost always fostered by mutual help.
▪ It was agreed that thanks are due to all retiring Chaplains for their service, mutual help and fellowship.
▪ That has always been one of the most heartening aspects of county cricket: mutual help, irrespective of the teams they represent.
interest
▪ The two casts of characters, although ostensibly cooperating to solve a crime of mutual interest, detest each other.
▪ He should mention it, alert her in their mutual interest.
▪ The officials were eager to stress the mutual interests of our two countries and a future full of cooperation.
▪ The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information about future events and to discuss problems of mutual interest.
▪ The participating States also envisage holding future seminars on topics of mutual interest.
▪ The two will explore areas of mutual interest in interactive three-dimensional software technologies and virtual reality for Mac and Windows desktop boxes.
▪ And thus sealed together by a mutual loss rather than mutual interest, their friendship had begun.
love
▪ They look at each other in mutual love and self-giving, a trinity yet together revealing the unity of the Godhead.
▪ Gradually they began building a rapport based on this mutual love for creating structures.
▪ Good discipline is mainly based on mutual love and respect.
▪ It is possible for both parents and children to show mutual love and respect in spite of their very different views.
▪ Later, they discovered that they had a mutual love of reading mysteries and thrillers.
▪ How close were they really, in matters other than their mutual love?
▪ He imagines their life together, their marriage, a sweet existence of mutual love and mutual companionship.
recognition
▪ There are also chapters on those areas most affected by the Seventh Directive: harmonisation, equivalence and mutual recognition.
▪ The mutual recognition of ministers and members that is inherent in all union schemes plays a crucial role here.
▪ The 1991 Basic Agreement, which looked forward to a peace treaty and mutual recognition, can also be reaffirmed.
▪ There has to be a mutual recognition among the partners to sacrifice income.
▪ However faster progress is being achieved via the mechanism of mutual recognition.
▪ Steps towards free movement of labour have been taken by use of mutual recognition of many vocational qualifications.
▪ But harmonization will now concentrate on the essentials - the peripherals will be left to a process of mutual recognition by states.
▪ Initially mutual recognition has been targeted at the professions and holders of higher level qualifications.
respect
▪ In this liaison there should be a great deal of give and take, generating trust and mutual respect.
▪ Love and submission and mutual respect is certainly just as important as the success of the new church.
▪ Do they criticize each other in interviews, or speak with mutual respect?
▪ As the months passed the Colonel and the commandant's mutual respect grew.
▪ According to friends of both, there is a mutual respect between the two.
▪ A conventional union based on love and mutual respect is, quite clearly, impossible to maintain.
▪ It is a barrier that has short-circuited communication and blocked mutual respect.
support
▪ His two-term governorship has been an exercise in incessant mutual support between Texas business and Texas politics.
▪ Something whole, something alive dwells in that mutual support.
▪ Free discussion about attitudes to a problem will relieve anxiety, and mutual support can be obtained.
▪ Theirs was a relationship based upon expediency and convenience, not one of compatibility and mutual support.
▪ While the canal boatmen were away without their families the women who remained were drawn together for mutual support.
▪ Tonight eight children would be married, thus forming important alliances and mutual support between families which would last lifetimes.
▪ Housegroups A vital means to expressing and achieving mutual support in the fight for the kingdom is the small group.
▪ Positive long-term acceptance of the child involves the parents' mutual support throughout the time after birth.
suspicion
▪ Instead there would be the dismal apparatus of mutual suspicion familiar to every accountant.
▪ A further conference at La Ferté-Bernard in July 1168 met in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and broke up with nothing achieved.
▪ But at Eindhoven the organisation was unable to prevent fraternisation between the two sides leaping from mutual suspicion into whirlwind romance.
▪ This general detente has not, however, dispelled decades of mutual suspicion.
▪ Newt-bashing camouflages the mutual suspicion between the president and his supposed friends in Congress.
▪ Novel approaches to Roma exclusion may have to be attempted to overcome mutual suspicion.
trust
▪ This ensures good eye contact which is very important in promoting mutual trust and confidence between members.
▪ And they deeply understood how to integrate work and fun to promote mutual trust, learning, and performance.
▪ The partners' duties A vital component of a partnership is the mutual trust between partners.
▪ Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
▪ Hostages are a useful as well as a time-honoured gesture of mutual trust.
▪ Maintaining that vital balance between faith and doubt, preserving that mutual trust, is a primary task for any leader.
▪ Leader-member relations are good if they all look forward to working together and there is mutual trust and respect.
▪ Successful partnerships must be based upon a sense of security and mutual trust.
understanding
▪ And DeVore, hearing it, had felt he had used it like some secret password; some token of mutual understanding.
▪ By tacit, mutual understanding they returned to the school separately.
▪ It is establishing and keeping up mutual understanding between an organisation and the people it wants to reach.
▪ The programme of the same name will promote growth in mutual understanding and cross community awareness between Protestant and Catholic communities.
▪ Both stressed in particular the importance of the informal Camp David meetings in strengthening mutual understanding and trust.
▪ It must also ensure a mutual understanding of each others needs should such an act, or similar, occur.
▪ There was no farewell kiss, merely a nod of mutual understanding.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the feeling is mutual
▪ Well, if Dave doesn't want to play with me, then the feeling is mutual.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A good marriage should be based on mutual love and respect.
▪ An investment in my company would be to our mutual benefit.
▪ Baker will leave the company shortly by mutual agreement.
▪ He was very much in love with Hilda and the feeling appeared to be mutual.
▪ The couple were introduced to each other by a mutual friend.
▪ The meeting broke up in an atmosphere of mutual irritation.
▪ They would meet every week to discuss matters of mutual interest.
▪ We have mutual respect for each other's work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A mutual therapy session for emotionally dislocated correspondents.
▪ But it was a remarkable demonstration of allied unity and mutual dependence.
▪ But the movie character and the real-life teacher do share a mutual dream of earning their livings as composers of music.
▪ For three years, Kevin Furr watched his retirement savings go next to nowhere in a mutual fund.
▪ Together, the two players in the development process must have a sense of mutual responsibility for projects.
▪ What started with high hopes for mutual support among poor countries was confounded by market forces.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mutual

Mutual \Mu"tu*al\, a. [F. mutuel, L. mutuus, orig., exchanged, borrowed, lent; akin to mutare to change. See Mutable.]

  1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.

    Conspiracy and mutual promise.
    --Sir T. More.

    Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love.
    --Milton.

    A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters.
    --G. Eliot.

  2. Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort.
    --Burke.

    A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
    --Bentley.

    Note: This use of mutual as synonymous with common is inconsistent with the idea of interchange, or reciprocal relation, which properly belongs to it; but the word has been so used by many writers of high authority. The present tendency is toward a careful discrimination.

    Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have mutual ancestors?
    --P. Harrison.

    Mutual insurance, agreement among a number of persons to insure each other against loss, as by fire, death, or accident.

    Mutual insurance company, one which does a business of insurance on the mutual principle, the policy holders sharing losses and profits pro rata.

    Syn: Reciprocal; interchanged; common.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mutual

late 15c., originally of feelings, from Middle French mutuel (14c.), from Latin mutuus "reciprocal, done in exchange," from PIE root *mei- (1) "to change, exchange" (see mutable).\n\nThat is common which pertains equally to two or more persons or things.\n
\nThat is mutual which is freely interchanged: mutual love, affection, hatred. The word is sometimes incorrectly used for common: our mutual friend, a phrase of very frequent occurrence, no doubt owing to the perfectly correct 'mutual friendship.'\n

[J.H.A. Günther, "English Synonyms Explained & Illustrated," Groningen, 1904]

\nMutual Admiration Society (1851) seems to have been coined by Thoreau. Mutual fund is recorded from 1950. The Cold War's mutual assured destruction attested from 1966. (Assured destruction was an early 1960s term in U.S. military policy circles in reference to nuclear weapons as a deterrent, popularized c.1964 by Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson, e.g. statement before House Armed Services Committee, Feb. 18, 1965; the mutual perhaps first added by Donald Brennan, conservative defense analyst and a public critic of the policy, who also noted the acronym MAD.)
mutual

short for mutual fund, 1971; see mutual.

Wiktionary
mutual

a. 1 Having the same relationship, each to each other. 2 collective, done or held in common. 3 reciprocal. 4 possessed in common. 5 (context relate Relating to a company, insurance or financial institution English) Owned by the members. n. A mutual fund, etc.

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WordNet
mutual

  1. adj. common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn: common]

  2. concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other clubs" [syn: reciprocal] [ant: nonreciprocal]

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Gazetteer
Mutual, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 132
Housing Units (2000): 51
Land area (2000): 0.136140 sq. miles (0.352600 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.136140 sq. miles (0.352600 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53480
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.079243 N, 83.638167 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Mutual, OH
Mutual
Mutual, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 76
Housing Units (2000): 38
Land area (2000): 0.262126 sq. miles (0.678902 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.262126 sq. miles (0.678902 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50150
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.229816 N, 99.167704 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73853
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Mutual
Wikipedia
Mutual

Mutual may refer to:

  • Mutual organization, where as customers derive a right to profits and votes
  • Mutual information, the intersection of multiple information sets
  • Mutual insurance, where policyholders have certain "ownership" rights in the organization
  • Mutual fund, a professionally managed form of collective investments
  • Mutual Film, early American motion picture conglomerate, the producers of some of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies
  • Mutual Broadcasting System, a defunct U.S. radio network
  • Mutual Improvement Association, the name of two youth programs run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Mutual authentication, used in cryptography
Place names
  • Mutual, Maryland, a community in the United States
  • Mutual, Ohio, a village in the United States
  • Mutual, Oklahoma, a town in the United States
  • Mutual railway station in Cape Town, South Africa
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Usage examples of "mutual".

Under the terms of the Mutual Use Treaty, which had been hammered out during that momentary thaw in relations between England and the Celtic Federation, every settler on Mars had received an Allotment of acreage for private terraforming.

An analytic logic of identity and difference presents the only relationship between the two series as mutual avoidance or, upon contact and the impairment of purity, mutual annihilation.

Ranging the continent literally from Georgia to Maine, with all his weaknesses and indiscretions, and with his incomparable eloquence, welcomed by every sect, yet refusing an exclusive allegiance to any, Whitefield exercised a true apostolate, bearing daily the care of all the churches, and becoming a messenger of mutual fellowship not only between the ends of the continent, but between the Christians of two hemispheres.

The torsion or rotation of leaves and leaflets, which occurs in so many cases, apparently always serves to bring their upper surfaces into close approximation with one another, or with other parts of the plant, for their mutual protection.

Major Domo had done his best to mitigate the more brutal requirements of his job, and he and the Archon had eventually achieved a degree of mutual respect.

So that it was with a mutual shrug for this display of personality that Brat and Bee greeted each other.

I told him, that our mutual friend Horsey Chevaux was three times decorated for valor.

Sitting up in the simple costume of nature, we ate the remains of our supper, exchanging those thousand trifling words which love alone can understand, and we again retired to our bed, where we spent a most delightful night giving each other mutual and oft-repeated proofs of our passionate ardour.

Mutual necessity could sometimes extort the exchange or ransom of prisoners: but in the national and religious conflict of the two empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

The situation requires, therefore, not only definite rules fixing the powers of the courts in cases of jurisdiction over the same persons and things in actual litigation, but also a spirit of reciprocal comity and mutual assistance to promote due and orderly procedure.

I said nothing, By mutual consent Locusta and I had not concealed our reason for going to Africa.

The two girls told me that when they went bathing in the sea they enjoyed mutual masturbation underwater with a little boy who was their friend.

Thus I can understand how a flower and a bee might slowly become, either simultaneously or one after the other, modified and adapted in the most perfect manner to each other, by the continued preservation of individuals presenting mutual and slightly favourable deviations of structure.

Both maps represent pitch modulo octaves, both have an activation of neurons that persists after the occurrence of the relevant pitch, and both have mutual reinforcement between consonantly related notes and mutual inhibition between notes not consonantly related.

Company, 385 resigns, 467-468 Mercredi, Pierre, 273 Muskeg Limited, 324 M6tis, 52-55, 58-59, 62-67, 68, Mutual Trust, 543 73,75,91,93-96, 163-166 Myers, Gustavus, 146 Mkis Bill of Rights, 65-66 Michener, Roland, 461, 463 Nagle, Edmund Barry, 282 Middleton, Gen.