NOUN
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises
How To Use quid pro quo In A Sentence
- Besides, since nature supplies cold as sparingly, we must do as the apothecaries do who, when they cannot get a simple, take its succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they call it — such as aloes for balsam, cassia for cinnamon. The New Organon
- In effect, they demanding a quid pro quo - a reward for supporting the British in getting a targeted reverse-charge scheme which the French now also need to stop their own fraud. Another day...
- What holds it back is the old quid pro quo. Times, Sunday Times
- The superintendent used quid pro quo to change the work situation.
- Does this not in fact reflect a huge principal-agent problem with a lot of quid pro quo backscratching of CEOs of each other? Paul Graham on the Distribution of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- It is impossible to understand the reality of modern lobbying by looking for an explicit quid pro quo.
- Dave N.: My own take (and everyone who reads this blog regularly knows my partisan leanings) are that there was an unstated quid pro quo, though probably made in a manner that strongly suggested the desired outcome without crossing aline ... The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up — Sestak Edition
- What holds it back is the old quid pro quo. Times, Sunday Times
- The appearance of a quid pro quo in the Hammer pardon is much more clear-cut than it is in the Rich case.
- The statement is emphatic in stating that there must be a quid pro quo.
