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• in-kind
  in-kind

  adjective

  paid or given in goods, commodities, or services instead of money.
• in kind
  in kind

  With produce or commodities rather than money. For example, I edited Bob's book for payment in kind; he gave me voice lessons in exchange . [c. 1600]

in-kind

American  

[in-kahynd] / ˈɪnˌkaɪnd /

adjective

1. paid or given in goods, commodities, or services instead of money.

   in-kind welfare programs.

2. paying or returning something of the same kind as that received or offered.

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in kind Idioms  

1. With produce or commodities rather than money. For example, I edited Bob's book for payment in kind; he gave me voice lessons in exchange . [c. 1600]

2. In the same manner or with an equivalent, as in He returned the insult in kind . [Early 1700s]

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