equal exchange
Example Sentences
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My sister tells me that she’s taking on huge responsibilities by “caring” for our parents, but other than taking them to a few appointments I’m not sure I’m seeing an equal exchange in this arrangement.
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2021
Her Syllabus course paired up graduate students and preschoolers as co-researchers, stressing that it should be an equal exchange.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2015
All which circumstances combined to render the number of prisoners, at all times, by far too small for a regular and equal exchange.
From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Dandridge, Danske
Love must be either an equal exchange between equals or else a complete giving by one person, so let my giving be complete.”
From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton
This is inadmissible, because unequal; and as we believe that Spain is not ripe for an equal exchange on this basis, we avoid proposing it.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)
