requitals

noun

plural of requital
1
as in damages
payment to another for a loss or injury the judge ordered the landlord to pay his former tenants $100,000 each as requital for goods lost or damaged in the apartment fire

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2
as in payments
something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services the electrician's requital for the used car was in the form of work on the dealer's house

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3
as in retaliations
the act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury "an eye for an eye" is a form of requital that is still legal in some countries

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for requitals
  1. damages
  2. payments
  3. retaliations
  4. reparations
  5. pays
  6. retributions
  7. compensations
  8. wages
Noun
  • The Family Dollar employee suffered damages, including losses in compensation and benefits, medical expenses, and anxiety and emotional distress, according to the EEOC.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The suit seeks unspecified damages for claims including legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and racketeering.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of damages
Noun
  • Solowin Holdings signed a memorandum in April with SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's venture arm, to incubate an AI payments project called AGENPAY.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Peter Gwaltney, president and CEO of the North Carolina Bankers Association, said contactless payments give consumers more flexibility, security and a smoother checkout.
    — Kimberly Tutuska, Charlotte Observer, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of payments
Noun
  • Over the past year, countries rushed to secure piecemeal deals; some allowed panic to overtake them; very few coordinated their actions or retaliations.
    — Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Neither country can afford to return to the prior tariff rates during the heat of tit-for-tat retaliations, which freaked out Big Tech earlier this year.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Definition of retaliations
Noun
  • Germany in particular borrowed extensively to finance both domestic growth and its reparations payments.
    — MICHAEL PETTIS, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026
  • In fact, the whole thing could be viewed as colonial reparations.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of reparations
Noun
  • This type of insurance can help cover the costs tied to leftover Medicare deductibles, co-insurances, co-pays and hospital costs.
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Be sure to investigate co-pays, deductibles, and what’s covered for birthing classes and specialty tests.
    — Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 27 July 2026
Definition of pays
Noun
  • What starts as a petty territorial conflict mutates into a spiralling cycle of retributions, escalating from passive-aggressive jabs to acts of destruction and ruin.
    — Udita Jhunjhunwala, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Surveys are important, too, so workers feel safe to speak up without any retributions.
    — Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Definition of retributions
Noun
  • Over time, those compensations accumulate into structural inefficiency that is difficult to unwind and even harder to justify correcting.
    — Kristofer Mussar, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • This can help address strength imbalances and movement compensations that, over time, can lead to injury.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
Definition of compensations
Noun
  • Cal Fire Local 1881 says wages haven’t kept up with inflation, according to previous Sacramento Bee reporting.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The group alleged security forces opened fire on job seekers in Gachsaran and Ahvaz and reported separate demonstrations over unpaid wages, inflation, fuel shortages and working conditions.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of wages
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“Requitals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requitals. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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