in kind meaning
ENWIn 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 (disambiguation): 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
- AdverbSUF-kind
- (paying or giving) with goods or services (as opposed to cash).
- I made some donations to the charity, not in money, but in kind, such as non-perishable food.
- (idiomatic) In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind.
- Vardy drilled over after getting behind Bartley and also hit the side-netting, resulting in the loudest cheer of the day from the Swansea fans after he kicked an advertising board in frustration. He responded in kind by showing them three fingers with one hand and making a zero with the other.
- (paying or giving) with goods or services (as opposed to cash).
- Preposition
Definition of in kind in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Phrases
- Prepositional phrases
- Prepositional phrases
- Adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Prepositions
- Prepositional phrases
- Prepositional phrases
- Phrases
Other Vocabulary
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "in kind" is a phrase, more specifically, a prepositional phrase. It's also an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb. It's also a preposition, more specifically, a prepositional phrase.