respectivere‧spec‧tive /rɪˈspektɪv/ ●●○ adjective [only before noun] 
Examples
We all went back to our respective homes to wait for news. the respective roles of teachers and students
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Collocations- The leaders met to discuss the problems facing their respective countries.
- Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling.
- But it was also recognized that such circumstances called for different strategies within the respective elementary and higher sectors of education.
- If their respective rates are five and ten percent, then the discount rate is 15 percent.
- Resolution into these parts is necessary in order to find their respective causes.
- Since the respective philosophies involve different methods and aims, the differences in results are quite understandable.
- So long as he was solvent in law, he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts.
- Within it the areas devoted to each will be under the aegis of the respective heads of departments.
- You know he is my enemy, just as I am his enemy, an enmity determined by our respective natures.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► country
Word family· The workshop is aimed at youth leaders who can develop media awareness training schemes in parishes and communities in their respective countries.· The participating States will make widely available in their respective countries the international humanitarian law of war.· From each you can get a good idea of what police work in the respective countries is really like.· While there has been an increase since independence, educational institutions still fall far below the needs of the respective countries.· During the workshop, participants shared reports on the status of religious broadcasting in their respective countries.· It also encourages assembly participants to submit samples of video footage on social movements in their respective countries.· Still, most of his Wembley contenders will be off with their respective countries next week.
► field· Swanson and Percival continued to show excellent form, leading home their respective fields.· The directory lists resource persons and their respective fields of expertise.
► party· And there are provisions of a restitutionary character designed to restore the respective parties to the share transactions to their former positions.· In every sense Gore and Bush represent the victory of the status quo within their respective parties.
► position· By virtue of our respective positions in the organization, you can tell me to meet certain performance objectives.· Both sides have now agreed to consider their respective positions and a further meeting has been agreed.· We proceeded to state our respective positions, which took about fifteen minutes.· The ambit of the duty must depend on the circumstances, especially the respective positions of those involved.· But the respective positions of Protestantism and Catholicism can be explained more reasonably against the background of economic and general history.
► role· Interacting in terms of their respective roles, teacher and student know what to do and how to do it.· But the respective roles of actions and objects in the construction of logical-mathematical knowledge are different.· Yet none of this obliterates the difference between the respective roles of names and descriptions.· Some of these overlap, and their respective roles are a mystery to spending departments.
WORD FAMILYnounrespect ≠ disrespectrespectabilityrespecterrespectfulnessadjectiverespectablerespectedrespectful ≠ disrespectfulrespectiveadverbrespectablyrespectfully ≠ disrespectfullyrespectivelyverbrespect ≠ disrespect
used before a plural noun to refer to the different things that belong to each separate person or thing mentioned: We all went back to our respective homes to wait for news. the respective roles of teachers and students