respective
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. We have respective opinions, respective responsibilities, respective anxieties. It's basically another word for individual. Each of a set of twins probably has his respective bed, even though they might share a bedroom together.
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considered individually“the respective club members”
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individual, single
being or characteristic of a single thing or person
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individual, single
respectfully / respectively
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When twelve-year-old beach-loving Ohioan Eddie Gordon Holloway runs out of clean clothes, he must finally do his laundry in the basement, where suddenly, the lights go dark.
When eleven-year-old Tokunbo Marshall moves with her mother into a Harlem brownstone, she must adjust to an extended family that includes three new sisters who see everything in life as a possible project in their self-designed education.
To seal their coven, keep their magic, and avoid being turned into toads, twelve-year-old Seven Salazar of Ravenskill must work with the bully Valley Pepperhorn and the new girl Thorn Laroux to defeat the Nightbeast.
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