Usually means: Responding to harm with harm.
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  1. retaliatory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retaliatory: Merriam-Webster
  3. retaliatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retaliatory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. retaliatory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Retaliatory, retaliatory: Wordnik
  7. retaliatory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. retaliatory: Wiktionary
  9. Retaliatory, retaliatory: Dictionary.com
  10. Retaliatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. retaliatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. retaliatory: Rhymezone
  13. Retaliatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. retaliatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. retaliatory: FreeDictionary.org
  16. retaliatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. retaliatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See retaliate as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retaliatory)

▸ adjective:  Relating to or part of a retaliation.

Similar:
reciprocal, retributive, retributionary, retributional, retributory, retortive, talionic, repercussionary, rejectional, repercussional, more...

Opposite:
preventive, deterrent, prophylactic

Phrases:
retaliatory discharge, retaliatory eviction, retaliatory tariff, retaliatory action, more...

Adjectives:
ever, more, nuclear, singularly, argumentative, less, peculiarly, larger, offensive, strategic, only

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Similar:
reciprocal, retributive, retributionary, retributional, retributory, retortive, talionic, repercussionary, rejectional, repercussional, more...

Opposite:
preventive, deterrent, prophylactic

Phrases:
retaliatory discharge, retaliatory eviction, retaliatory tariff, retaliatory action, more...

Adjectives:
ever, more, nuclear, singularly, argumentative, less, peculiarly, larger, offensive, strategic, only

Colors:
    red,     black,     dark red,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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