/
ˈmjuːtʃʊəl,
-tjʊəl/
adj.
- experienced or done by each of two or more parties towards the other or others:
mutual respect.
▸(of two or more parties) having the same specified relationship to each other.
- held in common by two or more parties:
a mutual friend.
- denoting a building society or insurance company owned by its members and dividing some or all of its profits between them.
Derivative
- mutuality n.
- mutually adv.
Etymology
C15: from OFr. mutuel, from L. mutuus ‘mutual, borrowed’.