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Princeton's WordNet

  1. retaliation, revengenoun

    action taken in return for an injury or offense

Wiktionary

  1. retaliationnoun

    Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.

  2. retaliationnoun

    An act of violent response

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Retaliationnoun

    Requital; return of like for like.

    Etymology: from retaliate.

    They thought it no irreligion to prosecute the severest retaliation or revenge; so that at the same time their outward man might be a saint, and their inward man a devil. South.

    God, graciously becoming our debtor, takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obliges himself to full retaliation. Edmund Calamy, Sermons.

Wikipedia

  1. retaliation

    Revenge is committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Primitive justice or retributive justice is often differentiated from more formal and refined forms of justice such as distributive justice and divine judgment.

ChatGPT

  1. retaliation

    Retaliation refers to the act of responding to harmful actions or injustice perceived to have been inflicted on oneself or others with a similar hurtful behavior or harmful action. It is often taken as a means of revenge or reprisal against the initial aggressor. Retaliation can be observed in various contexts, such as interpersonal relationships, workplaces, warfare, politics and business.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Retaliationnoun

    the act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

Wikidata

  1. Retaliation

    Retaliation is the second album by American comedian Dane Cook. It was released on July 26, 2005 by Comedy Central Records. The CDs contain a concert done by Cook at The Comedy Connection in Boston, Massachusetts. The DVD contains Dane's appearances on Shorties Watchin' Shorties and Crank Yankers, Comedy Central's Denis Leary Roast and Comedy Central's Bar Mitzvah Bash. The Crank Yankers call Foreign Guy English Lessons is previously unreleased. The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200, which was the most successful comedy album debut since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978. It went gold six days after its initial release and platinum on November 30, 2005. As of April 16, 2008, the album has sold 1,264,748 copies in the US alone.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. retaliation

    This should never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously and unavoidably; that is to say, retaliation is only to be resorted to after careful inquiry into the real occurrence and the character of the misdeeds that may demand retribution.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of retaliation in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of retaliation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of retaliation in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Marshall:

    A lot more employees have been reaching out to me to express their support but a majority of those employees are very afraid of retaliation from the company.

  2. Juliette Gust:

    There is tremendous negative pressure on police officers with regard to whistleblowing on fellow officers. Whistleblowers risk the threat of harsh penalties such as retaliation, ostracization, and harassment, an officer may be the only witness to a partners alleged misconduct, making the identification of the whistleblower obvious to all. Furthermore, the power of collective bargaining agreements between a city and its officers union has also been under scrutiny in recent days for prohibiting anonymous reporting.

  3. Ben Sasse:

    This is dumb. Europe, Canada, and Mexico are not China, and you don't treat allies the same way you treat opponents. We've been down this road before -- blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression. ' Make America Great Again' shouldn't mean' Make America 1929 Again,' bad news that @POTUS has decided to impose taxes on American consumers buying steel and aluminum from our closest allies -- Canada, the EU, and Mexico( with whom we run a trade surplus on steel). In addition to higher prices, these tariffs invite retaliation.

  4. Nayab Haider:

    When police tried to stop them, they stoned police and beat officials with batons. In retaliation, police baton-charged them followed by tear gas firing.

  5. Emmanuel Macron:

    It was retaliation, not an act of war.

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