Phrase guide

in kind

adv · prep_phrase · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adv

Meaning 1

With goods or services (as opposed to cash).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • I made some donations to the charity, not in money, but in kind, such as non-perishable food.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: in trade, take out in trade

Antonyms: none provided

2

adv

Meaning 2

In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: idiomatic, not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: equivalently, reciprocally, similarly

Antonyms: none provided

3

prep_phrase

Meaning 3

In the form of goods and services rather than money.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: usually

Examples

  • In the era before the widespread monetization of transactions with currency, barter was the usual form of selling and buying for farmers, and payment of taxes was often in kind; that is, farmers' payment method was most often their produce itself.
  • How much did he give? – Hard to say. It was all in kind.
  • The pay is OK, but the real attraction is all the benefits in kind.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: in specie

4

adverb

Meaning 4

with something of the same kind

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she pays him back in kind

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: in a similar way

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Calque of Latin in specie.

Across languages

Translations

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: в натура (v natura) — with goods or services
  • Chinese Mandarin: 以實物 /以实物 (yǐ shíwù) — with goods or services
  • Czech: v naturáliích — with goods or services
  • Danish: i naturalier — with goods or services
  • Dutch: in natura — with goods or services
  • Finnish: tavarana — with goods or services
  • Finnish: luontoissuorituksena — with goods or services
  • French: en nature — with goods or services
  • Galician: en especie — with goods or services
  • German: in Sachleistungen — with goods or services
  • Hungarian: természetben — with goods or services
  • Hungarian: természetbeni — with goods or services
  • Italian: in natura — with goods or services
  • Japanese: 現物で (genbutsu de) — with goods or services
  • Polish: w naturze — with goods or services
  • Portuguese: em espécie — with goods or services
  • Romanian: în natură — with goods or services
  • Russian: нату́рой (natúroj) — with goods or services
  • Slovak: v naturáliách — with goods or services
  • Spanish: en especie — with goods or services
  • Swedish: in natura — with goods or services
  • Swedish: i natura — with goods or services
  • Vietnamese: bằng hiện vật — with goods or services
  • Catalan: recíprocament — in a reciprocal manner
  • Chinese Mandarin: 回敬 (huíjìng) — in a reciprocal manner
  • Esperanto: reciproke — in a reciprocal manner
  • Finnish: samalla mitalla — in a reciprocal manner
  • French: réciproquement — in a reciprocal manner
  • German: mit gleicher Münze — in a reciprocal manner
  • German: entsprechend — in a reciprocal manner
  • Hungarian: hasonlóképpen — in a reciprocal manner
  • Hungarian: hasonlóan — in a reciprocal manner
  • Hungarian: hasonló módon — in a reciprocal manner
  • Ido: reciproke — in a reciprocal manner
  • Italian: reciprocamente — in a reciprocal manner
  • Italian: pagare con la stessa moneta — in a reciprocal manner
  • Polish: tak samo — in a reciprocal manner
  • Portuguese: na mesma moeda — in a reciprocal manner
  • Portuguese: reciprocamente — in a reciprocal manner
  • Russian: таки́м же о́бразом (takím že óbrazom) — in a reciprocal manner
  • Russian: той же моне́той (toj že monétoj) — in a reciprocal manner
  • Russian: те́м же (tém že) — in a reciprocal manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: истом мером (istom merom) — in a reciprocal manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: истом мјером (istom mjerom) — in a reciprocal manner