Definitions for retaliation
re·tal·i·a·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. retaliation, revengenoun

   action taken in return for an injury or offense

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. retaliationnoun

   Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.

2. retaliationnoun

   An act of violent response

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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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 GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. retaliationverb

   The action of returning a military attack; counterattack. The action of harming someone because they have harmed oneself; revenge: In returning the oppositions attack after assault sincerely equal to the denoting particular point or segment on a scale of action in a certain condition of completion.

   The streets magnifys retaliation as law with numbers, just as mental elements role play the act of God.

   Etymology: Returning to the throne

   
   

   Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 8, 2024  

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1. retaliation

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How to pronounce retaliation?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. Celso Augusto de Matos:

   The chances of customer retaliation will be reduced if the service provider has an efficient complaint-handling policy.

2. 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.

3. United States:

   They've been trying to argue to both the United States and to other countries that they are making progress on reform, and they're opening up, they're intervening less heavily in their economy, so a lot of the non-tariff retaliation probably undermines that image that they're trying to project.

4. Lynne Hermle:

   It never occurred to me for a second that a careful and attentive jury like this would find either discrimination or retaliation and I'm glad to have been proven right about that.

5. Ron Johnson:

   There is no excuse for retaliation against VA whistle-blowers like Dr. Klein. The president’s recent executive order makes that abundantly clear. The VA should fully comply with the committee’s request and stop the retaliation against Dr. Klein, who was only trying to expose substandard patient care.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=retaliation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Retaliation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=retaliation
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retaliation
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retaliation
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=retaliation
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html