(formal) a fact or an idea that is closely related to or depends on another fact or idea:
The child's right to education is a correlative of the parent's duty to send the child to school.
correlative adjective
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is correlative a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, correlative is tagged as noun.
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