Retaliatory
adjective
Made as a revenge or payback for something bad someone else has done.
Many countries impose retaliatory tariffs on imports as a reaction to similar actions of other countries.
Often appears as...
- retaliatory strike
- retaliatory action
adjective
Made as a revenge or payback for something bad someone else has done.
Many countries impose retaliatory tariffs on imports as a reaction to similar actions of other countries.
Often appears as...
- retaliatory strike
- retaliatory action
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Retaliatory suggests strong feelings as it's related to vengeance, not just a neutral response.
The furious owner made a retaliatory eviction after the rent dispute.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or political situations where actions have formal consequences.
The UN condemned the retaliatory airstrikes that followed the peace talks.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
While usually negative, retaliatory actions can sometimes be viewed as justified self-defense.
Despite the attack on their fleet, their retaliatory response was seen as a necessary action.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Retaliatory suggests strong feelings as it's related to vengeance, not just a neutral response.
The furious owner made a retaliatory eviction after the rent dispute.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or political situations where actions have formal consequences.
The UN condemned the retaliatory airstrikes that followed the peace talks.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
While usually negative, retaliatory actions can sometimes be viewed as justified self-defense.
Despite the attack on their fleet, their retaliatory response was seen as a necessary action.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Retaliatory suggests strong feelings as it's related to vengeance, not just a neutral response.
The furious owner made a retaliatory eviction after the rent dispute.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or political situations where actions have formal consequences.
The UN condemned the retaliatory airstrikes that followed the peace talks.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
While usually negative, retaliatory actions can sometimes be viewed as justified self-defense.
Despite the attack on their fleet, their retaliatory response was seen as a necessary action.
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How online abuse of...
the rain of retaliatory garbage that is inevitable -- I fear for you." But I trust girls and I trust women, and I trust our allies. It was published, it went viral, it proves that every single day online misogyny is a phenomenon endured by us all, all over the world, and when it is intersectional,
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Would you raise the bird...
The gray catbird, on the other hand, is an expert at rooting out the very same parasites. It memorizes what the first egg in its nest looks like, which is usually its own, and tosses any aberrations. This retaliatory adaptation can fuel an evolutionary arms race
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Steve Winter: On the...
for thirty years saw this next to a carcass of a tiger and they'll shoot something poison it and then they'll get the tiger skin and bones the bones are the most valuable but local people will also do this as retaliatory killings
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How Can Bees Save Bears?...
And the third threat is the illegal hunting for bear parts, for bear trade and human-bear conflict. So people kill the bears are retaliatory actions for cattle.
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How online abuse of...
the rain of retaliatory garbage that is inevitable -- I fear for you." But I trust girls and I trust women, and I trust our allies. It was published, it went viral, it proves that every single day online misogyny is a phenomenon endured by us all, all over the world, and when it is intersectional,
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Would you raise the bird...
The gray catbird, on the other hand, is an expert at rooting out the very same parasites. It memorizes what the first egg in its nest looks like, which is usually its own, and tosses any aberrations. This retaliatory adaptation can fuel an evolutionary arms race
Video examples
Steve Winter: On the...
for thirty years saw this next to a carcass of a tiger and they'll shoot something poison it and then they'll get the tiger skin and bones the bones are the most valuable but local people will also do this as retaliatory killings
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How Can Bees Save Bears?...
And the third threat is the illegal hunting for bear parts, for bear trade and human-bear conflict. So people kill the bears are retaliatory actions for cattle.
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Charles Dallara
American Businessman
Threats of trade protectionism, plus unilateral actions on the exchange-rate front, such as the heavy interventions of China, Japan, and Switzerland in the currency markets - not to mention the retaliatory tariffs recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives - endanger growth prospects and could further depress financial market confidence.
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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Paul Craig Roberts
American Economist
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won.
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Barney Frank
American Politician
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Russian Politician
The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.
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Rajnath Singh
Indian Politician
India always wants good, friendly relations with its neighbours and continues with its policy of not disturbing anyone. But if someone fires at us first, we will not count the retaliatory bullets.
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Antony Blinken
American Statesman
Pyongyang possesses thousands of artillery pieces 30 miles from Seoul. Just one retaliatory salvo could decimate South Korea's capital.
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Moshe Sharett
Israeli Statesman
An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.
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Charles Dallara
American Businessman
Threats of trade protectionism, plus unilateral actions on the exchange-rate front, such as the heavy interventions of China, Japan, and Switzerland in the currency markets - not to mention the retaliatory tariffs recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives - endanger growth prospects and could further depress financial market confidence.
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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Paul Craig Roberts
American Economist
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won.
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Barney Frank
American Politician
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Russian Politician
The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.
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Rajnath Singh
Indian Politician
India always wants good, friendly relations with its neighbours and continues with its policy of not disturbing anyone. But if someone fires at us first, we will not count the retaliatory bullets.
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Antony Blinken
American Statesman
Pyongyang possesses thousands of artillery pieces 30 miles from Seoul. Just one retaliatory salvo could decimate South Korea's capital.
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Moshe Sharett
Israeli Statesman
An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.
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