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He quickly developed a good rapport with the other teachers.
She works hard to build rapport with her patients.
There is a lack of rapport between the members of the group.
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Report comes from the French verb reporter and rapport comes from the French rapporter. Both verbs mean "to bring back" and can be traced back to the Latin verb portare, meaning "to carry." Rapporter also has the additional sense of "to report," which influenced the original English meaning of rapport ("an act or instance of reporting"). That sense of rapport dropped out of regular use by the end of the 19th century.
alienation, disaffection, disgruntlement, estrangement;
coldness, cold shoulder, distance, iciness;
animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, hostility, jaundice, rancor, spite;
accord, agreement, concord, harmony;
oneness, solidarity, togetherness, unity;
affinity, empathy, sympathy, understanding;
See words that rhyme with rapport Thesaurus: All synonyms and antonyms for rapport Spanish Central: Translation of rapport Nglish: Translation of rapport for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of rapport for Arabic speakers
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