American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To have relation or reference; relate; refer.
- n. Harmonious relation; correspondence; accord or agreement; affinity; analogy: used as a French word, often in the phrase en rapport, in or into close relation, accord, or harmony.
- n. In French law. a report on a case, or on a subject submitted; a return.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.
- n. a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people
- From the French rapporter (“to bring back”) (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, from raporter, to bring back : re-, re- + aporter, to bring (from Latin apportāre : ad-, ad- + portāre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“She resists at first but they slowly gain a rapport from the 1940s into the 1970s as the civil rights movement swirls around them.”
“One of the many ways you can build rapport is to include some personal information about you and your family.”
“That rapport is critical because trainers are convinced that a happy horse, who eats well and responds to attention in a spirited way, performs better.”
“The risk of investing in Arenas' four-year, $80 million contract is mitigated by his long-term rapport with his new GM, who has maintained their relationship since Smith was an executive with the Warriors when Arenas beginning his career at Golden State.”
“It creates a sort of scholarly "rapport" -- this use of commas -- between the gentility of the author and the assumed gentility of the reader, taking the latter into a kind of amiable partnership in ironic superiority.”
“And since Fonzie never seemed to have a long-term rapport with any of these girls, it’s unlikely that he ever experienced a loving, mutually satisfying, logically advancing relationship the lone exception being Pinky Tuscadero, who did not seem to reside in the immediate Milwaukee area.”
“There was nothing one might call rapport: all a bit difficult.”
“He believes that because he is good at establishing rapport, which is what makes him a good ghost writer, that it means he is also able to adopt from his present company the characteristics he needs to win through with such a sophisticated set of players.”
“Ahmadinejad referred to his rapport with Khamenei as “like father and son,” and the Supreme Leader repeated his blandishments that the embattled president was “brave and hardworking.””
“The men's "strategic sympatico," says Chicago Rep. Rahm Emanuel, recalls the rapport between him, James Carville and others atop Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign.”
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