retribution
noun
[ rɛtrɪˈbjuːʃ(ə)n ]
• punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
• "employees asked not to be named, saying they feared retribution"
Similar:
punishment,
penalty,
nemesis,
fate,
doom,
one's just deserts,
due reward,
just reward,
wages,
justice,
retributive justice,
poetic justice,
judgement,
reckoning,
revenge,
reprisal,
requital,
retaliation,
payback,
vengeance,
tit for tat,
measure for measure,
redress,
reparation,
restitution,
recompense,
repayment,
damages,
satisfaction,
remedy,
comeback,
atonement,
amends,
one's comeuppance,
measure,
Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘recompense for merit or a service’): from late Latin retributio(n- ), from retribut- ‘assigned again’, from the verb retribuere, from re- ‘back’ + tribuere ‘assign’.
