respectiveadjective [ before noun ]
uk/rɪˈspek.tɪv/us/rɪˈspek.tɪv/C1 relating or belonging to each of the separate people or things you have just mentioned:
Everyone would go into the hall for assembly and then afterwards we'd go to our respective classes.
Clinton and Zedillo ordered their respective Cabinets to devise a common counter-drug strategy.
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Linking and relating
- affiliated
- AL
- appertain to sth
- applicable
- apply
- associate
- associated
- bond
- connection
- context
- interconnected
- interplay
- interrelate
- interrelationship
- kindred
- the same/that goes for sb/sth idiom
- tie (sth) in
- tie-in
- tie-up
- topology
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respectively
adverb uk/rɪˈspek.tɪv.li/us/rɪˈspek.tɪv.li/
Examples
- The two meals cost us £50 and £80 respectively.
- He earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Chicago University in 1968 and 1972 respectively.
- Steven and James are aged 10 and 13 respectively.
- Her two daughters, Jo and Fiona, were born in 1968 and 1975 respectively.
- The storage tanks can hold 50, 100 and 200 litres of fuel respectively.
In the 200 metres, Lizzy and Sarah came first and third respectively (= Lizzy won the race and Sarah was third).