respond vs respond back

Both 'respond' and 'respond back' are correct, but 'respond' is more commonly used in English. 'Respond back' is redundant because 'respond' already implies a reply or reaction to something. It is more concise and clear to use 'respond' alone.

Last updated: March 26, 2024

respond

This is a correct and commonly used phrase in English.

Use 'respond' when you want to reply or react to something. It is a concise and clear way to indicate a response.

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The Commissioner heard your point and can respond appropriately.
President Franklin Roosevelt knows he needs to respond quickly.
A few lunatics could still respond.
National governments and other institutions must respond adequately.
The sympathetic nervous system may respond with massive vasoconstriction producing hypertension.
Took the station mechanic 20 minutes to respond.
Patients who are treated earlier respond better to treatments.
County sheriff was the first to respond.
And you don't have to respond.
It's not necessarily passive to not respond verbally.
It's right to respond roughly to such treatment.
I was into my script, so I couldn't respond.
Trish this is Valerie, we must respond.
They're unable or unwilling to respond.
I will ask counsel once again to convince Miss Salander to respond.
Are local SHIELD units are under attack and unable to respond.
But you must respond in the appropriate Place.
They can respond with lights if necessary.
We're here to respond when needed.
Which means we lack the ability to respond, sir.

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respond back

This is a correct phrase, but it is less commonly used in English.

Although 'respond back' is correct, it is redundant as 'respond' already implies a reply or reaction. It is more concise to use 'respond' alone.

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I've been sending out my feelers for our first gig, and the only place to respond back was this really weird goth club downtown.
Any available unit, respond to back up the fire department at 431 Westlake.
Don't let the fear of how he's going to respond hold you back.
The only way to respond is to push back.
Mr President, I welcome this opportunity to come back and respond briefly to the debate so far.
Better pull back and see if they respond.
Now, most people respond to being strangled by fighting back.
The Prime Minister himself, back at Westminster this afternoon, is yet to respond, casting serious doubts...
That is why I back the report and hope that the Commission will respond with an early evaluation of the EU scheme to aid afforestation.
Israel strikes back against terror, Israel retaliates, Israel responds.
The Irish referendum is a major problem, but it depends on us whether the European Union falls back into crisis this time or responds rapidly and decisively.
Firstly, we must look back and assess how we were able to respond to those events.
So, please, call me back... or respond to any of my forthcoming telegrams.
But you didn't respond to my note, so I don't know what else to do because now you're going back up to school.
If we do not respond I fear they are going to turn away and look back across the Pacific rather than look over to the European Union.
I started writing to her, and, you know, she had no good reason to respond, and then she wrote back.
Madam President, I reserve the right to come back in the second part of the debate, to respond to the comments that I am sure Vice-President Tajani will make.
No one disputes that the conventional framework of relations dates back to 1994 and cannot respond to the new geo-strategic and geo-economic circumstances.
Unemployment is also acting as a justification for ever more precarious employment, to which the Government responds with more attempts to set back labour rights.
When I say: 'yes, but there are statistical offices and Eurostat that can back this up', they respond: 'yes, but they are lying too'.

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