0 (an example of) activity against another person, especially as a punishment by military forces or a political group: --
1 an act of damage or injury against an enemy in reaction to an act of damage or injury done to you: --
In any case it was difficult to imagine a reprisal using them as targets.
Its operation warfare entailed resistance and war, should the federal government undertake military action and reprisals against it.
Hundreds of lives were lost in these reprisals.
In case of major conflicts they would have no way of escaping reprisal from family members or neighbours.
He notes the reluctance of many people to be interviewed out of fear of reprisals.
It was no coincidence that he referred to these reprisals not as retaliation but as peacetime military operations.
Indeed, it was because of this sanctification that they could betray codes of genteel conduct without reprisal.
In the realm of the girl group song, one conversationalist might tread acoustically on the toes of another without fear of reprisal.
