Gain
Payback
Payback noun - The act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury.
Both words in one sentence
- During the Mutiny, those states who suffered at the hands of these mercenaries regarded them as Les Collaborateurs who bit the hands of the hands that fed them, and many of these Princes and nobles now fought for their British conquerors to gain revenge and payback.
Source: Not in This for Your Revolution
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