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  1. Reciprocal

    reciprocal, interchangeable, correlative, complementary, done reciprocally, acting reciprocally, convertible, interchanged, responded to, reciprocated, requited, respective, two-sided, bilateral, give-and-take, interactive; see also exchangeable.

    Antonyms unreciprocated, one-sided, noninterchangeable.

  2. Common

    joint, shared, belonging equally to; see common 5.

mutual may imply an interchange of feeling between two persons mutual admiration, mutual enemies, or a sharing jointly with others the mutual efforts of a group; reciprocal implies a return in kind or degree by each of two sides of what is given or demonstrated by the other a reciprocal trade agreement or may refer to any inversely corresponding relationship the reciprocal functions of two machine parts; common simply implies being shared by others or by all the members of a group our common interests

See mutual in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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