Какво означава retaliation на английски?

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retaliation Значение & определение

0 the act of hurting someone or doing something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful to you:
- The bomb attack was in retaliation for the recent arrest of two well-known terrorists.
- She suffered severe retaliation for writing articles for the newspapers.

The government fears retaliation after the attacks.
They are angry about a loss of manufacturing jobs and have threatened retaliation.
He offered to protect victims from retaliation following complaints.
However, retaliation against implicit environmental subsidies is not permitted under these rules.
She does have a point when she stresses that 'the flexibility built into the original "massive retaliation" doctrine' (p. 272) was soon forgotten.
After such incidents, a wife is usually able to exercise greater autonomy without having to fear her husband's retaliation.
In retaliation, the vine growers set fire to the merchants' warehouses, occupied city halls, and organized demonstrations.
There was no electoral retaliation at the congressional level either.