All 3 Uses
respective
in
Listening - One Writer's Beginnings - Chpt 1
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- Here are the rich boy and the poor boy and Mr. Barlow, their teacher and interlocutor, in long discourses alternating with dramatic scenes—danger and rescue allotted to the rich and the poor respectively.†
*respectively = separately in the specified order
- The new should be rising: And in early childhood the sun and moon, those opposite reigning powers, I just as easily assumed rose in east and west respectively in their opposite sides of the sky, and like partners in a reel they advanced, sun from the east, moon from the west, crossed over (when I wasn't looking) and went down on the other side.†
- The school toilets were in the boys' and girls' respective basements.†
respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
Definitions:
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(1)
(respective) relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)