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The word 'reciprocation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the action of returning something in response to something else given. For example, "The two countries showed a spirit of reciprocation when they exchanged gifts to celebrate their newfound friendship."
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reciprocation
noun
The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.
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When folks make gestures of good will, any little reciprocation will do, but reciprocate we must (especially in the hospitality business).
It comes with reciprocation, and [Israel] hasn't reciprocated for twenty-five years.
Lefty spent the last decades of his life in considerable comfort, lacking for nothing except any reciprocation of affection from the "Latina lovelies" of South Miami Beach he so liked to ogle.
They lost, victims of America's need to offer some form of reciprocation as it presses foreign governments to provide details of Americans who hold money abroad.
He is therefore insisting on what he calls "reciprocation" from India.
A code of reciprocation coupled with agreements on standards of conduct, certification and penalties would go a long way towards providing the necessary comfort to ensure investor protection.We applaud the efforts of the SIB in attempting to take on this mammoth task.
His time in office has been characterised by great strides forward in cross-strait relations, to an extent not previously thought possible.Mr Zhang's visit was in fact a direct product of President Ma's success and functioned as a reciprocation of the landmark visit by Wang Yu-chi, Taiwan's Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, to the mainland in February.
Punch presses are usually driven by electric motors, and conversion from the rotary motion of the drive shaft to reciprocation of the ram is effected by either a crank, a toggle, or a cam mechanism.
As an unspoken reciprocation of their award, the University of Breslau had anticipated that Brahms, one of the greatest living composers (albeit one who had not attended college), would write a suitable new work to be played at the award ceremony.
In reciprocation, as is the Arab custom, the sheikh presented the Queen with four yearlings of his own breeding, of which Carlton House, a son of his high-class US-based stallion Street Cry, was one.
What more do you people want?! Unperturbed by this lack of audience reciprocation, he had another go during the question on IDS's new wheeze and once more, it was a serviceable little number ("Tough on babies, tough on the causes of babies") but yet again, nothing.
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