Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - reprisal
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(reprisals) If you do something to a person in reprisal, you hurt or punish them because they have done something violent or unpleasant to you. Witnesses are unwilling to testify through fear of reprisals. = retaliation N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle English reprisail, from Anglo-French reprisaile, from Medieval Latin represalia, from Old Italian rappresaglia, ultimately from ripreso, past participle of riprendere to take back, from ri- re- (from Latin re-) + prendere to take, from Latin prehendere — more at get Date: 15th century 1. a. the act or practice in international law of resorting to force short of war in retaliation for damage or loss suffered b. an instance of such action 2. obsolete prize 3. the regaining of something (as by recapture) 4. something (as a sum of money) given or paid in restitution — usually used in plural 5. a retaliatory act ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 an act of retaliation. 2 hist. the forcible seizure of a foreign subject or his or her goods as an act of retaliation. Etymology: ME (in sense 2) f. AF reprisaille f. med.L reprisalia f. repraehensalia (as REPREHEND) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. юр. репрессалия positive reprisal —- позитивная репрессалия letters (commission) of reprisal —- официальное свидетельство, санкционирующее репрессалию law of reprisal —- право возмездия 2. ответная мера или ответное действие to make reprisals —- мстить, платить тем же by way of reprisals —- в отместку 3. воен. ответный удар reprisal fire —- ответный огонь ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1419, "seizing property or citizens of another nation in retaliation for loss inflicted on one's own," from M.Fr. reprisaille, from It. ripresaglia, from ripreso, pp. of riprendere "take back," from L. reprendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend). General sense of "retaliation" is from 1710. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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