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respective English

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What does respective mean?
Definitions in simple English

respective

If something is said to be respective, it is relating to particular persons or things.

respective

(= several, various) considered individually the respective club members specialists in their several fields the various reports all agreed

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Simple sentences

Different nations can only coexist peacefully if they respect each other's respective culture.
We each went to our respective homes.
They took their respective places in line.

Movie subtitles

In your respective chapeaux and over your cauliflower ears.
Dr. Bohmer, our respective operations must be timed with the utmost precision.
The ships of this convoy, designated as Convoy 211, will put to sea at the respective times marked in the sealed orders to be given you at the close of this meeting.
Jules and Jim were called up by their respective armies and lost touch for a long time.
For the duration of these disturbances British personnel will retire to their respective messes and take no part in regimental activities.
Our respective powers are not at war.
When I push that lever, this room and everything in it will dissolve into their respective component electrical charges.
These two methods, employed by the respective companies, really illustrate the essential strategic choice that faces.
Away to heaven, respective lenity, fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!
Doctor, I believe we each have our respective tasks to complete before the Tholians complete theirs. Aah! Captain!
Colonel, as representatives of our respective governments we are being asked to approve the largest financial appropriation ever envisaged for a international project.
Get the truth back to your respective governments.
Our respective governments have agreed to pool their resources to find out what happened to our submarines.
An innkeeper couple told me, adding their respective commentary.
The ships of this convoy, designated as convoy 211, will put to sea at the respective times marked in sealed orders you'll receive at the close of this meeting.
Gentlemen, please take your respective seats.
That is, all I wish is to divide our respective shares.
I shall now read the laws pertaining to the duties and the respective rights of each party.
Man your respective stations for an immediate check of the entire V.T.V.M. System.
A period of open hostility ensued during which our respective talents - hers and ours - found their greatest expression.
Captain Kirk, there's been no formal declaration of hostilities between our two respective governments.
So the monsters are likely being controlled by devices in their respective areas.
Doctor, I believe we each have our respective tasks to complete before the Tholians complete theirs.
The both of you are true masters of your respective styles; so I thought.
I dare say, at a trial, our respective motives will make an interesting case.
WELL, OFF WE GO ON OUR RESPECTIVE TRAVELS.
Away to heaven, respective lenity, and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!
One will be on duty. The other three will be in their respective homes having lunch.
Jarnebring and Johannson, respective, from central investigation.
Before we assume our respective roles in this enduring drama just let me say that when these frail shadows we inhabit now have quit the stage, we'll meet and raise a glass again together in Valhalla.
Do you realise the incredible potential that could result from our taking a mutual dip in each other's respective gene pools?
Frankly, in my humble opinion, you humanoids spend too much time on your respective mating rituals.
Stay off their respective radars.

News and current affairs

All of these groups have their respective professional associations, which hold regular meetings and establish certification standards that keep the information up-to-date and the practitioners ethical in their work.
Both presidents, at the end of their respective terms, sought to resolve one of the world's most dangerous conflicts, while facing the threat that time was running out on them.
EU governments have different, often contradictory, strategies for their respective manufacturing sectors.
A renewed Euro-American partnership based on our own respective styles and instruments in foreign policy will benefit both sides.
This would not be enough for Bayrou in ordinary times, but today, on both sides of the political divide, opponents of the main candidates seem ready to join forces with him and betray their respective camps.
But the two sides have remained locked in their respective narratives - narratives that the recent cutoff of negotiations and hastily arranged referendum have reinforced.
Khamenei controls Iran's nuclear program and its foreign policy, but the US and Israel must work to reach consensus not only within their respective political systems, but also with each other.
It results from academics and funders collaborating on projects that aim to increase the competitive advantage of each in their respective domains.
The ECB in turn draws the Target credit from the respective national central bank to which the money is flowing and which therefore has to accept a reduction in its scope for issuing refinancing credit.
Indeed, even foreign states benefited after central banks entered into swap agreements, giving one another unlimited access to their respective currencies.
I believe the UN should push for an immediate de facto suspension, without waiting for the debates to begin on legal reforms in the respective countries.
Providing tools and opportunities that support the evolution of their respective roles is essential to creating a labor force capable of adapting to changing circumstances.
Second, the US should establish a credible enforcement mechanism to ensure that the parties comply with their respective obligations, particularly an immediate freeze on Israeli settlement activity throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.
However, the past 20 years or so have witnessed the emergence of research on science education at the university level carried out by scientists in their respective disciplines.
Sub-Saharan African Muslims are less assertive, and they face considerably more difficulties in their attempts to articulate their rights and establish their presence in their respective states and regions.
The price of the talks has already been high, with all sides having ramped up violence to strengthen their respective positions ahead of the negotiations.
This document is binding on both of us as signatories, on our respective political parties, and on their democratically elected representatives.
If Spain and Germany still had the peseta and the D-mark as their respective currencies, the differences in trade balances would cause the mark to appreciate and the peseta to decline.
But neither the Russian nor the Chinese Communists were ever unclear about the nationalist nature of their respective projects.
But both Democrats and Republicans are hard at work figuring out what will appeal to voters in their parties' respective primary elections - and thinking about what will play well to the electorate as a whole in November 2016.
It is in East Asia - where the strategic interests of China, the United States, and their respective partners intersect - that the geopolitical stakes, diplomatic tensions, and potential for a global explosion are highest.
The eurozone needs a government, which, as things stand at the moment, can consist only of the respective heads of state and government - a development that has already started.
Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are facing the defining challenge of their respective terms in office.
Indeed, all of the Euroskeptic and nationalist forces in the EU's member states would strive, with increasing success, to make their respective countries' withdrawal from the EU the central issue in domestic political debate and election campaigns.

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