English Dictionary

quid pro quo

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌkwɪd.pɹəʊˈkwəʊ/

名詞

歴史的

Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation. / (historical) Substitution of one drug for another. / Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.

日本語の意味

あるものが、別のものと解釈される、もしくは意味がずれて理解される（語義の曖昧さ、言葉遊び的な使い方を含む） / （歴史的用法）ある薬物が、別の薬物に置き換えられること / 何かと引き換えに、別の何かが提供または要求される、交換関係にあること（等価交換の概念）

During the negotiations, his concession was seen as a quid pro quo rather than a genuine compromise.

交渉中、彼の譲歩は真の妥協というよりも別のものの代わりとして見なされた。

意味（1）

Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.

The misunderstanding of the word or the quid pro quo is the unintentional pun, and is related to it exactly as folly is to wit.

意味（2）

(historical) Substitution of one drug for another.

a knave Apothecary that administers the Physick, and makes the medicine, may doe infinite harme, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, etc.

意味（3）

Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.

To him I offered a quid pro quo; and meant to give nothing without getting a full equivalent.

意味（4）

A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.

意味（5）

An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.

Mr. P. did not consider that branch, strictly and technically speaking, public revenue; at least it did not arise from taxation, because those persons who had paid this money had received a full equivalent for the same; there was a quid pro quo on both sides; and this was not taxation, it was a sale; the parties therefore from whom this money was derived had not been taxed.

意味（6）

(law) Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.

A quid pro quo complaint typically is lodged by an employee who has been denied opportunities because he or she refused a perpetrator's sexual advances or by an employee who has been denied opportunities because another employee obtained those opportunities by submitting to a perpetrator's sexual advances.

quae pro quibus （ plural ）

quid pro quibus （ plural ）

quid pro quos （ plural ）