reciprocally

Adverb

reciprocally (comparative more reciprocally, superlative most reciprocally)

1. In a reciprocal manner; by way of returning (e.g. a favour, insult, etc).
   • In the process of production, human beings work not only upon nature, but also upon one another. They produce only by working together in a specified manner and reciprocally exchanging their activities.1891, Karl Marx, translated by Frederick Engels, Wage Labour and Capital
   • When younger brother calls [his elder brother's wife] his "co-wife" and reciprocally, when she calls him co-husband," rights in sexuality are being satirized.1997, David Lipset, Mangrove man: dialogics of culture in the Sepik estuary, page 72

   Synonyms:

   gainwise, in kind, mutually

   Antonyms:

   irreciprocally