Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
The misunderstanding of the word or the quid pro quo is the unintentional pun, and is related to it exactly as folly is to wit.
Substitution of one drug for another.
a knave Apothecary that administers the Physick, and makes the medicine, may doe infinite harme, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, etc.
Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
Borrowed from Latin quid prō quō (literally “something for something”).
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To deny that the arrangement was a quid pro quo would be laughably disingenuous.