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