Society

symbiotic

mutually dependent

A symbiotic relationship is a close relationship between two people, groups, or living things in which they depend on or affect each other.

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Hear it in real life

Do the two businesses compete?

A little, but they also have a symbiotic relationship.

Play the conversation

The university and the local hospital have a symbiotic partnership because each provides something the other needs.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: The two businesses have a symbiotic relation each other.

Say: The two businesses have a symbiotic relationship with each other.

Use “relationship with each other” or “a relationship between them”; “relation each other” is incomplete.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

a symbiotic relationship; be symbiotic; a symbiotic partnership

Your turn: say it out loud

The university and the local hospital have a symbiotic partnership because each provides something the other needs.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

symbiotic

mutually dependent

“The university and the local hospital have a symbiotic partnership because each provides something the other needs.”

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