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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
respective
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
country
▪ The workshop is aimed at youth leaders who can develop media awareness training schemes in parishes and communities in their respective countries.
▪ The participating States will make widely available in their respective countries the international humanitarian law of war.
▪ From each you can get a good idea of what police work in the respective countries is really like.
▪ While there has been an increase since independence, educational institutions still fall far below the needs of the respective countries.
▪ During the workshop, participants shared reports on the status of religious broadcasting in their respective countries.
▪ It also encourages assembly participants to submit samples of video footage on social movements in their respective countries.
▪ Still, most of his Wembley contenders will be off with their respective countries next week.
field
▪ Swanson and Percival continued to show excellent form, leading home their respective fields.
▪ The directory lists resource persons and their respective fields of expertise.
party
▪ And there are provisions of a restitutionary character designed to restore the respective parties to the share transactions to their former positions.
▪ In every sense Gore and Bush represent the victory of the status quo within their respective parties.
position
▪ By virtue of our respective positions in the organization, you can tell me to meet certain performance objectives.
▪ Both sides have now agreed to consider their respective positions and a further meeting has been agreed.
▪ We proceeded to state our respective positions, which took about fifteen minutes.
▪ The ambit of the duty must depend on the circumstances, especially the respective positions of those involved.
▪ But the respective positions of Protestantism and Catholicism can be explained more reasonably against the background of economic and general history.
role
▪ Interacting in terms of their respective roles, teacher and student know what to do and how to do it.
▪ But the respective roles of actions and objects in the construction of logical-mathematical knowledge are different.
▪ Yet none of this obliterates the difference between the respective roles of names and descriptions.
▪ Some of these overlap, and their respective roles are a mystery to spending departments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The leaders met to discuss the problems facing their respective countries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling.
▪ But it was also recognized that such circumstances called for different strategies within the respective elementary and higher sectors of education.
▪ If their respective rates are five and ten percent, then the discount rate is 15 percent.
▪ Resolution into these parts is necessary in order to find their respective causes.
▪ Since the respective philosophies involve different methods and aims, the differences in results are quite understandable.
▪ So long as he was solvent in law, he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts.
▪ Within it the areas devoted to each will be under the aegis of the respective heads of departments.
▪ You know he is my enemy, just as I am his enemy, an enmity determined by our respective natures.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respective

Respective \Re*spec"tive\ (r?*sp?k"t?v), a. [Cf. F. respectif, LL. respectivus. See Respect.]

  1. Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. [Obs.]

    If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not . . . refuse this charge.
    --A?p. Sandys.

  2. Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective connections of society.

  3. Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own; as, they returned to their respective places of abode.

  4. Fitted to awaken respect. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  5. Rendering respect; respectful; regardful. [Obs.]

    With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.
    --Chapman.

    With thy equals familiar, yet respective.
    --Lord Burleigh.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
respective

mid-15c., "regardful, observing or noting with attention," from Medieval Latin respectivus "having regard for," from Latin respect- past participle stem of respicere (see respect (n.)). Meaning "relating or pertaining severally each to each" is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
respective

a. Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.

WordNet
respective

adj. considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a), various(a)]

Usage examples of "respective".

A just proportion of guards, of legions, and of auxiliaries, was allotted for their respective dignity and defence.

Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction 6 Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy 6, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Age all registered the lowest circulation figures in their respective histories.

Cardinal Julian and Bessarion archbishop of Nice, appeared in the pulpit, and, after reading in their respective tongues the act of union, they mutually embraced, in the name and the presence of their applauding brethren.

We gave particular instructions to the captain of the brigantine, and when all was ready, the General and I, with our respective servants, got into the boat, and were slowly rowed towards the shore.

The excluded classes had been the leaders, the commanders, the men of position, the friends and the patrons of those who, only less guilty because less influential and powerful, were now intrusted with the initial work in the re-establishment of civil Government in their respective States.

States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective number, counting the whole number of persons in each, excluding Indians not taxed.

Turbo, Meles Agrippa, and Castoras are all historical figures, but their participation in the respective initiations is invented.

We shall thus also be enabled to see the respective parts which habit and the selection of so-called accidental variations have played in modifying the mental qualities of our domestic animals.

But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen, Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance, and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortises exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few,--not omitting even scaffolding,--or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such piece in,--in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.

Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance,--and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortises exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few,--not omitting even the scaffolding,--or if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such piece in,--in such a case we feel it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn before the first blow was struck.

Foulmouthed doctor and slandered professor -- such would be your respective roles!

Both were the outgrowth of a vast, ancient civilization of the highest order, which transmitted some part of its astronomical knowledge to its colonies through their respective priesthoods.

The Greek, the Roman, and the Barbarian, as they met before their respective altars, easily persuaded themselves, that under various names, and with various ceremonies, they adored the same deities.