Usually means: Responding to harm with harm.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word retaliative:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaliative: Merriam-Webster
  2. retaliative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retaliative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retaliative: Wordnik
  5. retaliative: Wiktionary
  6. Retaliative, retaliative: Dictionary.com
  7. Retaliative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. retaliative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Retaliative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. retaliative: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Retaliative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaliative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. retaliative: Legal dictionary

(Note: See retaliate as well.)

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▸ adjective:  retaliatory

Similar:
reciprocal, reversative, retrocessional, backreacting, retrad, reversive, revertive, retrocessive, counterregulative, reversionistic, more...

Opposite:
forgiving, merciful, lenient, tolerant, understanding

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Similar:
reciprocal, reversative, retrocessional, backreacting, retrad, reversive, revertive, retrocessive, counterregulative, reversionistic, more...

Opposite:
forgiving, merciful, lenient, tolerant, understanding



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