ALL meanings of in kind
in kind
I i - adjective in kind paid or given in goods, commodities, or services instead of money: in-kind welfare programs. 1
- adjective in kind paying or returning something of the same kind as that received or offered. 1
- noun in kind a class or group of individual objects, people, animals, etc., of the same nature or character, or classified together because they have traits in common; category: Our dog is the same kind as theirs. 1
- noun in kind nature or character as determining likeness or difference between things: These differ in degree rather than in kind. 1
- noun in kind a person or thing as being of a particular character or class: He is a strange kind of hero. 1
- noun in kind a more or less adequate or inadequate example of something; sort: The vines formed a kind of roof. 1
- noun in kind Archaic. the nature, or natural disposition or character. manner; form. 1
- noun in kind Obsolete. gender; sex. 1
- idioms in kind in kind, in something of the same kind or in the same way as that received or borne: They will be repaid in kind for their rudeness. in goods, commodities, or services rather than money: In colonial times, payment was often made in kind. 1
- idioms in kind kind of, Informal. to some extent; somewhat; rather: The room was kind of dark. 1
- idioms in kind of a kind, of the same class, nature, character, etc.: They are two of a kind. 1
- adverb in kind with sth similar 1
- noun in kind The phrase these (or those) kind of, followed by a plural noun (these kind of flowers; those kind of shoes) is frequently condemned as ungrammatical because it is said to combine a plural demonstrative (these; those) with a singular noun, kind. Historically, kind is an unchanged or unmarked plural noun like deer, folk, sheep, and swine, and the construction these kind of is an old one, occurring in the writings of Shakespeare, Swift, Jane Austen, and, in modern times, Jimmy Carter and Winston Churchill. Kind has also developed the plural kinds, evidently because of the feeling that the old pattern was incorrect. These kind of nevertheless persists in use, especially in less formal speech and writing. In edited, more formal prose, this kind of and these kinds of are more common. Sort of has been influenced by the use of kind as an unchanged plural: these sort of books. This construction too is often considered incorrect and appears mainly in less formal speech and writing. Kind (or sort) of as an adverbial modifier meaning “somewhat” occurs in informal speech and writing: Sales have been kind (or sort) of slow these last few weeks. 1
- phrase in kind If you respond in kind, you react to something that someone has done to you by doing the same thing to them. 0
- phrase in kind If you pay a debt in kind, you pay it in the form of goods or services and not money. 0
- noun in kind (of payment) in goods or produce rather than in money 0
- noun in kind with something of the same sort 0
- noun in kind in goods or produce instead of money 0
- noun in kind with something like that received; in the same way 0