[C,U] (written) a violent or aggressive act towards sb because of sth bad that they have done towards you:
They did not want to give evidence for fear of reprisals. * They shot ten hostages in reprisal for the assassination of their leader.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for reprisal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is reprisal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, reprisal is tagged as noun.
Does reprisal appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — reprisal appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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