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What does "Dutch treat" mean?

An outing or date in which each person pays his or her own expenses.
For example, Her parents agreed that she might date if it were a Dutch treatHe wanted to pay the bill, but I objected and we settled on Dutch treat.
 The related expression go Dutch means “to go on a date with each person paying their own way,”(=pagar a medias) as in Students often elect to go Dutch. The first term dates from about 1870, and the variant from the early 1900s.

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