°(usually after the noun) In the form of goods and service rather than money.
            
            
              ''"How much did he give?" "Hard to say. It was all in kind."
            
        verb
          
            
              °(paying or giving) with goods or services (as opposed to cash).
            
            
              "I made some donations to the charity, not in money, but in kind, such as non-perishable food."
            
          
            
              °In a 
reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind.
            
 
            
              "I kissed him, and he responded in kind and kissed me back."
            
        
          synonyms:
          in trade, equivalently, reciprocally, similarly