rapport

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɹæˈpɔɹ/ (US)
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/ɹæˈpɔɹ/ (US) · /ɹəˈpɔɹ/ (US)

Definition of rapport

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
    “He always tried to maintain a rapport with his customers.”
    “"You can't have less than nothing. They ignore them altogether. Some time ago I had a series of cases of telepathic rapport which I wished to lay before the Royal Society."”
    “She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
    “He always tried to maintain a rapport with his customers.”
    “"You can't have less than nothing. They ignore them altogether. Some time ago I had a series of cases of telepathic rapport which I wished to lay before the Royal Society."”
    “She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Relation; proportion; conformity.
    “'Tis obvious enough, what rapport there is, and muſt ever be, between the Thoughts and Words, the Conceptions and Languages of every Country, [...]”

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Etymology

Borrowed from French rapport. Doublet of report.

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