Usually means: Response to perceived harm or injustice.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word retaliation:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaliation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retaliation: Merriam-Webster
  3. retaliation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retaliation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. retaliation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Retaliation, retaliation: Wordnik
  7. retaliation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. retaliation: Wiktionary
  9. retaliation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Retaliation, retaliation: Dictionary.com
  11. retaliation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. retaliation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Retaliation (Carnivore album), Retaliation (Dane Cook album), Retaliation (German band), Retaliation (Keak da Sneak album), Retaliation (disambiguation), Retaliation (film), Retaliation (song), Retaliation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Retaliation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. retaliation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. retaliation: Rhymezone
  17. Retaliation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. retaliation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. retaliation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. retaliation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. retaliation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaliation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Retaliation (album), retaliation: Legal dictionary
  5. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retaliation: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See retaliate as well.)

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noun:  Violent or otherwise punitive response to an act of harm or perceived injustice; a hitting back; revenge.

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