in kind

in kind

See also: in-kind

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin in specie.[1]

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in kind

1. (usually after the noun) In the form of goods and services rather than money.
   • 1856, “Treaty signed April 18, 1855; ratified April 5, 1856”, in Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam, Bangkok: J. H. Chandler, page 13:

     On all articles of import the duties shall be three per cent, payable at the option of the importer, either in kind or money, calculated upon the market value of the goods.

   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.

Derived terms

• benefit in kind
• payment in kind
• grant in kind
• tax in kind

Adverb

in kind (not comparable)

1. (of paying or giving) With goods or services (as opposed to cash).

   Synonym: in trade

   Antonym: in cash

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

2. (idiomatic) In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind.

   Synonyms: equivalently, reciprocally, similarly

   • 2015 December 5, Alan Smith, “Leicester City back on top as Riyad Mahrez hat-trick downs Swansea City”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     Vardy drilled over after getting behind Bartley and also hit the side-netting, resulting in the loudest cheer of the day from the Swansea fans after he kicked an advertising board in frustration. He responded in kind by showing them three fingers with one hand and making a zero with the other.

   • 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎, archived from the original on 17 October 2022, retrieved 6 November 2022, 17:51 from the start:

     Armor-piercing shells were heading up the shell hoists, but this procedure took a few minutes, allowing the battered American flagship to reply in kind, the gunners somewhat motivated to set new records for the rate of fire as the cruiser raked the larger ship from stem to stern in response.

Usage notes

Frequently in the phrase payment in kind.

Translations

with goods or services

Bulgarian: в натура (v natura) Chinese: Mandarin: 以實物／以实物 (zh) (yǐ shíwù) Czech: v naturáliích Danish: i naturalier Dutch: in natura (nl) Finnish: tavarana (fi), luontoissuorituksena French: en nature (fr) Galician: en especie German: in Sachleistungen Hungarian: (as an adverb) természetben, (as an adjective) természetbeni Italian: in natura Japanese: 現物で (ja) (げんぶつで, genbutsu de) Polish: w naturze Portuguese: em espécie Romanian: în natură Russian: нату́рой (ru) (natúroj) Spanish: en especie Swedish: in natura (sv), i natura Vietnamese: bằng hiện vật

in a reciprocal manner

Catalan: recíprocament (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 回敬 (zh) Esperanto: reciproke Finnish: samalla mitalla French: réciproquement (fr) German: gegenseitig (de) Hungarian: hasonlóképpen (hu), hasonlóan (hu), hasonló módon Ido: reciproke (io) Italian: reciprocamente (it) Portuguese: reciprocamente Russian: таки́м же о́бразом (takím že óbrazom), той же моне́той (toj že monétoj), те́м же (tém že) Serbo-Croatian: истом мером (istom merom), истом мјером (istom mjerom) Spanish: recíprocamente

See also

• compensation
• emolument

References

1. “kind, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. (section 15. “in kind”)

Further reading

• payment in kind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia