Usually means: Justice meted out equally, fairly.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. measure for measure: Dictionary.com
  2. Measure For Measure, Measure for Measure (album), Measure for Measure (film), Measure for Measure, Measure for measure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Measure for Measure: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  4. Measure for Measure: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. measure for measure, Measure for Measure: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Measure for Measure)

noun:  a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604, according to available records.
noun:  the fourth studio album by the Australian rock band Icehouse, released in April 1986 in Australia by Regular Records and in the United States by Chrysalis Records.
noun:  (literally "A tooth for a tooth") a 1943 Italian historical drama film directed by Marco Elter and starring Carlo Tamberlani, Caterina Boratto and Nelly Corradi.
noun:  a play written by William Shakespeare.
noun:  a 2019 Australian drama film written by Damian Hill and Paul Ireland, directed by Ireland and starring Hugo Weaving.


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