Requital

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of requiting.
  • n. Return, as for an injury or friendly act.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Compensation for loss or damage; amends.
  • n. retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; ; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of requiting, or that which requites: return for any office, good or bad.
  • n. In a bad sense, retaliation or punishment.
  • n. Synonyms Remuneration, payment, retribution. Requital differs from the other nouns indicating reward in expressing most emphatically either a full reward or a sharp retaliation. In the latter sense it comes near revenge (which see).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a justly deserved penalty
  • n. an act of requiting; returning in kind
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    penalty    getting even    return    paying back   
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