[U] ~ (against sb/sth) (for sth) action that a person takes against sb who has harmed them in some way:
retaliation against UN workers * The shooting may have been in retaliation for the arrest of the terrorist suspects.
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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.
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This entry for retaliation is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is retaliation a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, retaliation is tagged as noun.
Does retaliation appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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