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
  • As part of his suit, Musk asked for $150 billion in damages that would be destined for a charitable trust and requested OpenAI’s for-profit structure be reversed.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 July 2026
  • The jury awarded her $3 million in damages and recommended an additional $3 million in punitive damages.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of damages
Noun
  • California’s richest residents would be able to spread the payments over five years.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • The first wave of Social Security payments for July is scheduled to be distributed this week.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 6 July 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
  • Last month, Mottley led a subcommittee of Caribbean leaders that launched a new slavery reparations manifesto during a reparations conference in Ghana.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • The opinion, while not legally binding, stated that countries were legally required to reduce GHG emissions and may have to pay reparations for damages from climate change.
    — Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of reparations
Noun
  • There is no Cost Per Mile (CPM), a digital marketing metric that represents the cost an advertiser pays for every 1,000 impressions.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Just to cover the city’s various bond measures, the owner of a home with an assessed value of $1 million pays around $1,145 annually.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 3 June 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
  • This can help address strength imbalances and movement compensations that, over time, can lead to injury.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
  • Still, Fiedler shows convincingly enough that American writers’ attempts to adapt the seduction narrative to our concerns—to reimagine it so as to preserve our enduring sense of ourselves as innocents—explain our literature’s peculiar aversions and resultant compensations.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of compensations
Noun
  • The proposal would not require any salary adjustments but would ask the district to adjust wages below the 50th percentile by June 2027 where feasible.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
  • With fewer affordable options available and wages not keeping pace with the high prices, teachers often live outside of the district or take on additional jobs to supplement their income, Black said.
    — Taylor O'Connor July 15, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
Definition of wages
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“Requitals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requitals. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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