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A mutual fund.
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A mutual organization.
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Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts.
adjective
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Having the same relationship, each to each other.
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They were mutual enemies.
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Collective, done or held in common.
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Mutual insurance.
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Reciprocal.
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They had mutual fear of each other.
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Possessed in common.
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They had a mutual love of the same woman.
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(Relating to a company, insurance or financial institution) Owned by the members.
Examples of mutual in a Sentence
We agreed on our mutual commitment.
We both have a mutual problem.
It was a terrific speech and they both nodded in mutual agreement.
I want mutual trust and love.
Certainly. It's not as if they don't have a mutual interest in this business.
By mutual agreement, Alex had final say in decisions, but they were supposed to discuss it first.
Was it wishful thinking, or was there a mutual attraction between them?
We both managed a smile at our mutual concern.
They have thus upheld the true contractual nature of concordats and the mutual juridical obligation which results from them.
Although Ethel and Fred had never met, that didn't stop them from developing a strong mutual dislike, fueled via telephone messages and third-party comments.
The gemeente - consisting only of those bound by the communal oath for mutual help and defence - elected their own magistrates.
The feeling is mutual. You're the reason I spent so much time in Hell.
Since concordats are contracts they give rise to that special mutual obligation which results from every agreement freely entered into; for a contract is binding on both parties to it.
But with these reservations it must unhesitatingly be said that concordats are bilateral or synallagmatic contracts, from which results an equal mutual obligation for the two parties, who enter into a juridical engagement towards each other.
Could it have been mutual?
It was of the nature of a contract, entered into by mutual promise, the clasping of hands, and exchange of an agreement in writing (tabula hospitalis) or of a token (tessera or symbolum), and was rendered hereditary by the division of the tessera.
But the mutual jealousy of the allies saved her.
Mary liked him, and the feelings were obviously mutual.
The feeling is mutual.
They were pious foundations created for mutual benefit and for purposes of charity.
Over the years, our friendship grew through our mutual love of music and mutual dislike for each other's football teams.
They are formed by the action of nitrous fumes on ammoniacal solutions of cobaltous salts, or purpureo-salts, or by the mutual reaction of chlorpurpureosalts and alkaline nitrites.
Thus when one carries one's thoughts back to a series of events, one constructs a psychic whole made up of parts which take definite shape and character by their mutual interrelations.
But, with advancing civilization and the consequent increase in the number of the conditions to be imposed on both parties, leases became mutual contracts, bilateral in form.
The general state of the island when the Japanese assumed possession was that the plain of Giran on the eastern coast and the hill-districts were inhabited by semibarbarous folk, the western plains by Chinese of a degraded type, and that between the two there existed a traditional and continuous feud, leading to mutual displays of merciless and murderous violence.
He defined structure " as the manner of the mutual linking of the atoms in the molecule," but denied that any such structure could give information as to the orientation of the atoms in space.
From the former point of view the freeman, then essentially a warrior, and the slave were mutual auxiliaries, simultaneously exercising different and complementary functions - each necessary to the community.
There were treaties between states for the extradition of fugitives, and contracts of mutual assurance between individuals against their loss by flight.
Nicholas preached a crusade, and endeavoured to reconcile the mutual animosities of the Italian states, but without much success.
He showed that the attraction between the rubbed body and the test object is mutual.
The ' secret mutual connivance ' is not an idea that either astrologers or Jung the scientist finds easy to see or illumine.
In sympathy with this Platonism, the medieval church began by assuming the entire mutual harmony of faith and reason.
Organized as they are into a kind of community for mutual protection and mutual help, they soon become masters of the trade wherever they penetrate.
They style themselves " truly spiritual Christians," and in their rejection of the sacraments, their indifference to outward forms, and their insistence on the spiritual interpretation of the Bible (" the letter killeth "), they are closely akin to the Quakers, whom they resemble also in their inoffensive mode of life and the practice of mutual help.
The mutual assurances of unbounded confidence, admiration and sympathy, if there was any genuine sincerity in them, represented merely a transient state of feeling.
On national the 30th of July 1907 she signed a convention with position Japan of mutual respect for treaty and territorial of Russia.
Similarly in Great Britain there is a tendency towards combination by mutual agreement among the companies while they still preserve their independent existence.
As results of Roberval's labours outside the department of pure mathematics may be noted a work on the system of the universe, in which he supports the Copernican system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter; and also the invention of a special kind of balance which goes by his name.
Mdlle Curchod soon afterwards became the wife of Necker, the famous financier; and Gibbon and the Neckers frequently afterwards met on terms of mutual friendship and esteem.
Richelieu intercepted the letters, and by omissions and falsifications succeeded in destroying their mutual confidence.
In this way we account most simply for the uniformity in the direction in which the planets revolve, and for the mutual proximity of the planes in which their orbits are contained.
Religion was inseparable from ordinary life, and, like that of all peoples who are dependent on the fruits of the earth, was a nature-worship. The tie between deities and worshippers was regarded as physical and entailed mutual obligations.
Under Ventidius Cumanus (48-52) the mutual hatred of Jews and Romans, Samaritans and Jews, found vent in insults and bloodshed.
The protective instinct was responsible for much of this interference with the natural impulse of men of various creeds towards mutual esteem and forbearance.
Society is conceived as regulated by, mutual obligations, of which the duties of parents and children are the most important.
This was probably the reason why their marriage was annulled by mutual consent in 1151, but contemporary scandal-mongers attributed the separation to the king's jealousy.
An end was put to these disorders only by the mutual agreement of the two contestants, alike horrified and exhausted by the fierce outburst of passion, in September 1905.
In 1818 he was appointed political agent for the states of western Rajputana, where he conciliated the chieftains, settled their mutual feuds and collected materials for his Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (2 vols., 1829-1832).
The lord of the manor with his officials and retainers, the peasantry bound to him by ties of personal dependence and mutual rights and obligations, constituted a little world, in which we can watch the play of motives and passions not so dissimilar as we are sometimes led to believe from those of the great modern world.
The results of more than twenty years' labour were set forth in his Hexapla and Tetrapla, in which he placed the Hebrew text side by side with the various Greek versions, examined their mutual relations in detail, and tried to find the basis for a more reliable text of the LXX.