Usually means: Punishment inflicted for wrongdoing committed.
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  1. retribution: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retribution: Merriam-Webster
  3. retribution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retribution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retribution: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retribution: Vocabulary.com
  7. Retribution, retribution: Wordnik
  8. retribution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. retribution: Wiktionary
  10. retribution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. retribution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. retribution: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. retribution: Dictionary.com
  14. retribution: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. retribution: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Retribution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. retribution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. retribution: Rhymezone
  20. retribution: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. retribution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. retribution: FreeDictionary.org
  23. retribution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. retribution: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. retribution: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. retribution: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retribution: Encyclopedia

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  1. retribution: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.

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