mutually

[ myoo-choo-uh-lee ]

adverb

1. in a way that is shared or reciprocal:

   Please call to set up an appointment at a mutually agreeable time.

   There are significant differences between the two organizations, but they are mutually supportive.

Other Words From

• non·mu·tu·al·ly adverb
• qua·si-mu·tu·al·ly adverb
• trans·mu·tu·al·ly adverb
• un·mu·tu·al·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutually¹

mutual ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

First, Wall and all-star guard Bradley Beal have a long-standing partnership and a mutual respect.

From Washington Post

Restaurant workers without documents never received benefits at all and have been getting by through patchwork charity and mutual aid operations.

From Eater

Many organizations drew their scope in and focused on a small number of key partnerships based on mutual trust.

From Digiday

Wall Street banks such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase have bundled about $550 billion worth of commercial mortgages into securities and sold them as investments to pension funds, life insurance companies and mutual funds.

From Washington Post

Such bondholders are typically mutual funds, pension funds and other institutional investors.

From Washington Post

But fun and insight are not always mutually exclusive, certainly not here.

From The Daily Beast

And so it goes, another chapter written in the mutually abusive relationship of bad government and bad culture.

From The Daily Beast

There were two superpowers, they knew what we had, we knew what they had, mutually assured destruction meant something.

From The Daily Beast

Or was it a further stage in a mutually agreed transaction between civil rights and national security?

From The Daily Beast

In geopolitics, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction prevents the use of weapons of mass destruction against a foe.

From The Daily Beast

The exile and the maiden, in short, fell in love with each other, and they mutually vowed never to be parted but by force.

From Project Gutenberg

We shook each other by the hand, and congratulated one another mutually, as if we had done some great and heroic deed.

From Project Gutenberg

You must invite only such guests as will mutually please, and you must be careful about introductions.

From Project Gutenberg

It enables the hostess to place those whom she is certain will be mutually entertaining, next each other.

From Project Gutenberg

Had they been Frenchmen, they would have rushed into each other's arms and saluted mutually on either cheek.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• commonly
• jointly