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What does tit-for-tat mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having the characteristic of returning bad for bad.
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A clear tit-for-tat policy should apply here: if Member States fail to address fraud and the waste of European funds adequately, this should have consequences in terms of the level of funds they receive.
Moscow responded with tit-for-tat expulsions.
At the beginning of March, mutual violence and tit-for-tat killings intensified, leaving little hope for an early solution to the conflict.
We know only too well the cycle of violence, the tit-for-tat, the eye for an eye.
Feelings are running high in Britain and the crisis must be resolved quickly, otherwise there will be tit-for-tat retaliation on both sides of the channel.
Tough tit-for-tat policy is necessary in order to prevent, or discourage, repetition.

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