ALL meanings of mutual
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M m - adjective mutual possessed, experienced, performed, etc., by each of two or more with respect to the other; reciprocal: to have mutual respect. 1
- adjective mutual having the same relation each toward the other: to be mutual enemies. 1
- adjective mutual of or relating to each of two or more; held in common; shared: mutual interests. 1
- adjective mutual having or pertaining to a form of corporate organization in which there are no stockholders, and in which profits, losses, expenses, etc., are shared by members in proportion to the business each transacts with the company: a mutual company. See also mutual insurance. 1
- noun mutual Informal. a mutual fund. 1
- noun mutual The earliest (15th century) and still a current meaning of mutual is “reciprocal,” specifying the relation of two or more persons or things to each other: Their admiration is mutual. Teachers and students sometimes suffer from a mutual misunderstanding. Mutual soon developed the sense of “having in common, shared”: Their mutual objective is peace. This latter sense has been in use since the 16th century and is entirely standard. It is occasionally criticized, not on the grounds of ambiguity but on the grounds that the later sense development is somehow wrong. Mutual in the sense of “shared” may have been encouraged by the title of Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend (1864–65), but Dickens was not the innovator. The fact that common also has the sense “ordinary, unexceptional” and “coarse, vulgar” may have contributed to the use of mutual instead of common in designating a shared friend. 1
- adjective mutual reciprocal 1
- adjective mutual shared 1
- noun mutual (of a feeling or action) experienced or done by each of two or more parties toward the other or others. 1
- adjective mutual You use mutual to describe a situation, feeling, or action that is experienced, felt, or done by both of two people mentioned. 0
- adjective mutual You use mutual to describe something such as an interest which two or more people share. 0
- adjective mutual If a building society or an insurance company has mutual status, it is not owned by shareholders but by its customers, who receive a share of the profits. 0
- adjective mutual experienced or expressed by each of two or more people or groups about the other; reciprocal 0
- adjective mutual common to or shared by both or all of two or more parties 0
- adjective mutual denoting an insurance company, etc, in which the policyholders share the profits and expenses and there are no shareholders 0
- adjective mutual done, felt, etc. by each of two or more for or toward the other or others; reciprocal 0
- adjective mutual of, or having the same relationship toward, each other or one another 0
- adjective mutual shared in common; joint 0
- adjective mutual designating or of a type of insurance in which the policyholders elect the directors, share in the profits, and agree to indemnify one another against loss 0
- adjective mutual If a savings and loan association or an insurance company has mutual status, it is owned by its customers. 0