Real Dictionary

in kind
phrase: If you pay a debt in kind, you pay it in the form of goods or services and not money.
phrase: If you respond in kind, you react to something that someone has done to you by doing the same thing to them.

in kind in American English
in goods or produce instead of money
in something of the same kind or in the same way as that received or borne

in kind in British English
(of payment) in goods or produce rather than in money

in-kind in American English
adjective: paid or given in goods, commodities, or services instead of money