quid pro quo
/ˌkwɪd.pɹoʊˈkwoʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
noun
Substitution of one drug for another.
noun
Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
noun
A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
noun
A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
noun
Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.
Example Sentences
- "The misunderstanding of the word or the quid pro quo is the unintentional pun, and is related to it exactly as folly is to wit."
- "“Is it simply a wild fantasy, or a mistake on the part of the old man — some impossible quid pro quo?”"
- "His argument was formulated, not without reason, as a paradox, a quid pro quo of opposing concepts: form is declared to be content, thus its own opposite."
- "a knave Apothecary that administers the Physick, and makes the medicine, may doe infinite harme, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, etc."
- "Nicholas [Praepositus] was also the author of a "Quid pro Quo", that is an alphabetically arranged catalogue of equivalent drugs, capable of replacing each other, when for any reason one or the other drug was wanting"
- "Was it not Claudius Galenus (130-200 A. D.), the great Roman physician-pharmacist, who was about the very first to prepare a lengthy list of drugs, quid pro quo, a list which remained in use until about the sixteenth century?"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkwɪd.pɹoʊˈkwoʊ/
- British English: /ˌkwɪd.pɹəʊˈkwəʊ/