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relating separately to the people or things just mentioned- Our salespeople are paid in accordance with their respective sales.
respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- California and Texas have about 40 and 30 million people respectively.
- Some state judges are appointed by governors of their respective states. Others are elected.
- Although originally written under a pseudonym, this version of The Federalist Papers has the real name of each author included with their respective essays.
- As it was, we were compelled to hold our heads high and be, respectively, a gentleman and a lady.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- They knew each other through their respective books, and were soon talking excitedly.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- Even Ali's older JV field hockey friends had returned from their respective colleges; they stood in a teary huddle near the door.Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
- He explained about their respective disabilities, and he spent some time describing their personalities and what it had been like to study under them.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- With the mail clerk's departure, Emile and Andrey looked down at their respective envelopes in wonder.Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow
- From then on, whenever they called our respective faiths to action, we would sing out to each other: "Work it out for me, Piper!"Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
- Rogojin and the prince each approached the house on his respective side of the road; Rogojin, who was on the near side, beckoned the prince across.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism each have founder figures—Muhammad, Jesus, and the Buddha, respectively.John Green -- Looking for Alaska
- And this is how, on any given evening, one could hear not one but two families calling for their respective Jeemees.Dumas Firoozeh -- Funny in Farsi
- We rinse out the used cans and empty bottles and put them in their respective bins.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- Timothy could not lift the veil, and the two other boys were busy being ten and eight years old, respectively.Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
- He hit the brakes, swerving slightly, as two other cups crashed against the back door and sunroof, respectively.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
- You had now to look about for two victims whose names began with A and B respectively and who lived at places also beginning with those same letters.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- The Owenites in England, and the Fourierists in France, respectively, oppose the Chartists and the Reformistes.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
- There, as wont, the guns' crews stood by their respective cannon erect and silent.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- But even the C.E.T. delegates betrayed the fiction of that calm as they returned to their respective congregations.Frank Herbert -- Dune
respectively = separately in the specified order
respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
respectively = separately in the specified order
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