In return for WHAT
In return for WHAT
The passage below is from Jellyfish age backwards by Nicklas Brendborg.
In 1847, the Hungarian-German physician Ignaz Semmelweis was trudging around Vienna with a burdened conscience. Semmelweis was an obstetrician, a doctor specialising in pregnancy and childbirth, and was in charge of the maternity ward at Vienna General Hospital. The hospital had set up two clinics to offer free maternity care to the poor women of the city. And in return, one of the clinics was used to train new midwives while the other was used to train new doctors.
In this passage I cannot figure out the usage of ‘in return’. I don’t see why this phrase is used. This is used ‘in return for something’. And in this passage even if there’s no ‘for something’, I think we can guess ‘for something’ in context. But I can’t do it.
Could you help me out? Thanks in advance.
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Stenka25 In this passage I cannot figure out the usage of ‘in return’. I don’t see why this phrase is used. This is used ‘in return for something’.
- Stenka25 In this passage I cannot figure out the usage of ‘in return’.
- I don’t see why this phrase is used.
- This is used ‘in return for something’.
- And in this passage even if there’s no ‘for something’, I think we can guess ‘for something’ in context.
- But I can’t do it.
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Stenka25In this passage I cannot figure out the usage of ‘in return’. I don’t see why this phrase is used. This is used ‘in return for something’. And in this passage even if there’s no ‘for something’, I think we can guess ‘for something’ in context. But I can’t do it.
Me, neither. The idea is that the hospital is out the money it takes to provide the free
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