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There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.
Thomas Friedman

Meaning of "in kind" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IN KIND

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WHAT DOES IN KIND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

In kind

In economics and finance, in kind refers to goods, services, and transactions not involving money or not measured in monetary terms. For example: ▪ Payment in kind, or barter: exchange of goods or services for other goods or services with no medium of exchange ▪ Income in kind: in particular ▪ Benefit in kind: employee benefits such as a company car or gym membership ▪ Tax in kind: such as a tithe from a farmer's crops ▪ Calculation in kind: a type of accounting based on physical magnitudes and physical quantities rather than a common unit of account ▪ Gifts in kind: a kind of charitable giving in which, instead of giving money to buy needed goods and services, the goods and services themselves are given...

Definition of in kind in the English dictionary

The definition of in kind in the dictionary is in goods or produce rather than in money. Other definition of in kind is with something of the same sort.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IN KIND

in hock
in holes
in holy orders
in honour bound
in honour of
in hot water
in inverted commas
in irons
in isolation
in it
in large
in leaf
in league
in light of
in line for
in line with
in liquor
in loc. cit.
in lockstep with
in loco citato

WORDS THAT END LIKE IN KIND

benefit in kind
Dedekind
gavelkind
humankind
Jongkind
kind
Libeskind
mankind
one-of-a-kind
overkind
perpetual motion of the first kind
perpetual motion of the second kind
unkind
Wedekind
womankind
wunderkind

Synonyms and antonyms of in kind in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «in kind» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IN KIND

Find out the translation of in kind to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of in kind from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «in kind» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

实物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en especie
570 millions of speakers

English

in kind
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वस्तु के रूप में
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العينية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

в натуральном выражении
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

em espécie
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধরনের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

en nature
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dalam jenis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sach
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

現物で
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

종류의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing jinis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiện vật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வகையான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रकारची
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ayni
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

in natura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

w naturze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

в натуральному вираженні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

în natură
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σε είδος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

in soort
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

in natura
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

i form
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of in kind

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IN KIND»

The term «in kind» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.755 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IN KIND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «in kind» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «in kind» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about in kind

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10 QUOTES WITH «IN KIND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word in kind.
1
Ward Churchill
When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
2
Mike D
I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.
3
Danny Elfman
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.
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Thomas Friedman
There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.
5
Caroline Goodall
I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.
6
Asa Gray
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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Lorde
I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.
8
Robert MacNeil
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
9
Rosamund Pike
The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.
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Susan Rice
I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IN KIND»

Discover the use of in kind in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to in kind and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Running QuickBooks in Nonprofits
You should record all in-kind transactions in QuickBooks. The transaction is a journal entry, and the accounts you use depend on how your accountant wants you to differentiate between in-kind donations used by your organization and those ...
Kathy Ivens, 2005
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Poverty and Transfers In-kind: A Re-evaluation of Poverty in ...
Hence the effects of our major in-kind programs directed at relieving poverty are statistically nullified: food stamps and child nutrition, rent supplements and public housing, medicaid, and such — all multi- billion-dollar programs, which now ...
Morton Paglin, 1980
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Payment in Kind
It looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building.
J. A. Jance, 2009
4
Wiley GAAP 2010: Interpretation and Application of Generally ...
If interest or dividends are paid in kind, the commitment date for the paid-in-kind securities is the commitment date for the original instrument if the payment in kind is not discretionary. The payment is not discretionary if (1) neither the issuer nor ...
Barry J. Epstein, Ralph Nach, Steven M. Bragg, 2009
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Special Needs Trust Administration Manual: A Guide for Trustees
What. is. in-kind. income? Under the pertinent Social Security regulations, an SSI recipient is expected to pay for all of his food and shelter costs out of his SSI stipend. Often this is quite difficult, so sometimes an SSI recipient must get ...
Richard S. Blank, 2005
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Royalty-in-Kind Program: MMS Does Not Provide Reasonable ...
We were asked to determine the extent to which MMS ensures the accurate and timely identification and collection of royalty-in-kind (RIK) gas imbalances. To address our objective, we reviewed various reports by the Department of the Interior ...
Frank Rusco, 2010
7
Economic Transfers in the United States
Thus, while cash equivalent value is conceptually preferable to other measures of in-kind transfer value in assessing the distributional impact of in-kind subsidies , it is not easily or accurately estimated in many cases. 4.2.5 Nonrecipient ...
Marilyn Moon, 2007
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Distributional Impact of Cash and In- Kind Social Transfers ...
Distributional Incidence of Social Transfers In Kind Tables 9 and 10 show the size and concentration coefficients for transfers in kind in Poland, former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Imputed value of education benefits amount to ...
Branko Milanovic, 1992
9
Public Finance
Political realities make it more likely that a given dollar amount of in-kind assistance can gain approval, whereas equivalent amounts of cash assistance cannot. Apparently, assistance to the poor is more likely to obtain votes when a particular ...
David Hyman, 2007
10
Hungary in International Tax Planning
Under the Companies Act, shareholders may make a contribution in kind to the share capital of a company either upon establishment or as a capital increase. In- kind contributions may be any marketable thing, intellectual property, or rights ...
Dániel Deák, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IN KIND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term in kind is used in the context of the following news items.
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Donna Curtin on leadership: Be humble and kind; you're in business …
Even if you're kind, not everybody is going to respect that or react to you in kind. I don't think you should walk away from it just because some ... «Syracuse.com, Jul 15»
2
Jerry Jones to Dez Bryant: 'Let's win five Super Bowls in a row' | The …
An equally excited Bryant replied in kind: “Yes sir, we are. I'm very excited. I can't wait. I think this is the year. We got it.” The Cowboys have won ... «Fort Worth Star Telegram, Jul 15»
3
Pierre school board weighs extracurricular activities rule - Capital …
... committee, received inquiry from other board members between June 8's regular board meeting and July 10, which he responded to in kind. «The Capital Journal, Jul 15»
4
Sorcerer King Review in Progress - GameSpot
As you grow your army, capture more territory, and forge alliances with other factions, however, the Sorcerer King will respond in kind--and you ... «GameSpot, Jul 15»
5
Thanks, but no thanks | The Sierra Vista Herald
“Through that, we have taken very measured, very considerate steps, in kind of a slow fashion, but moving forward throughout that time, ... «Sierra Vista Herald, Jul 15»
6
Director says 'Death of a Salesman' is still relevant today, even in …
“She's in kind of an impossible situation, but dealing with it the best she can,” he said. Peter Chapman, Campbell Martin and Jonathan Harrell ... «Albuquerque Journal, Jul 15»
7
Too early to speculate on timing of India visit: Pakistan NSA Sartaj Aziz
India has responded in kind and both sides have said they had suffered casualties. Pakistan has also claimed to have downed a "spy drone" ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn: Movie dialogues that describe …
India responded in kind and both sides said they had suffered casualties. There were talks of fighting fire with fire and 'not-tolerating-any more' ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
9
Minor mothers in Bulgaria to receive allowances paid only in kind
Sofia. Under age and minor mothers in Bulgaria will receive children allowances paid only in kind, as decided by the Bulgarian parliament with ... «Focus News, Jul 15»
10
'Black' murder isn't different from any other kind: Jarvis DeBerry
Black, white or otherwise, almost all of us have at one point or another decried black-on-black crime, elevating it as something different in kind ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»

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