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RESPECTIVE definition: 1. relating or belonging to each of the separate people or things you have just mentioned: 2…. Learn more.
Respective means relating or belonging separately to the individual people you have just mentioned.
The meaning of RESPECTIVE is particular, separate. How to use respective in a sentence.
RESPECTIVE meaning: 1. relating or belonging to each of the separate people or things you have just mentioned: 2…. Learn more.
Respective definition: pertaining individually or severally to each of a number of persons, things, etc.; particular. See examples of RESPECTIVE used in a sentence.
When two people each have something of their own, it's their respective thing. In a boxing match, the opponents each start in their respective or individual corners. Respective comes from the Latin respectivus meaning "having regard for." Everyone has regard for what's respectively theirs.
belonging or relating separately to each of the people or things already mentioned. They are each recognized specialists in their respective fields. the respective roles of men and women in society.
Respective means relating or belonging separately to the individual people you have just mentioned.
relating to each of the people or things that you have just talked about: members of staff and their respective partners (Definition of respective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Define respective. respective synonyms, respective pronunciation, respective translation, English dictionary definition of respective. adj. Relating to two or more persons or things regarded individually; particular: successful in their respective fields. re·spec′tive·ness n.
