quid pro quo

noun quae pro quibus · quid pro quibus · quid pro quos

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.
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.
3. Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else. To deny that the arrangement was a quid pro quo would be laughably disingenuous.
4. A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions. More importantly, the Chrysler bailout produced a quid pro quo wherein Congress agreed to pass bank deregulation legislation if banks agreed to convert substantial amounts of Chrysler's debt to equity.
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
6. 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 ad

   Similar: QPQ

Similar: barter, swap, trade