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What does retribution mean?

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  1. Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
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In a legendarily violent town of 3000 people, you quickly understand the rules of retribution and revenge.
As a result, the juvenile justice system has emphasized rehabilitation, not retribution, requital, or punishment.
Mr Kennedy rejected putting retribution to satisfy the victims of crime above reforming criminals.
Some wanted retribution and called for the death penalty for convicted police murderers, while others lamented the decline of their communities.
But fear of retribution may prevent the poor from exercising their informal and even legal rights.
Few well-known executives who achieved celebrity during the boom years of the Nineties are now safe from shareholder retribution.

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