Pay and Retribution

Pay

Pay noun - The money paid regularly to a person for labor or services.

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Retribution and pay are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Retribution" instead a noun "Pay".

Nearby Words: payment, paid, paying, payable, payout

Retribution noun - The act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury.

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Pay and retribution are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pay" instead a noun "Retribution".

Nearby Word: retributive

nice	nice pay	nice retribution
special	special pay	special retribution
long	long pay	long retribution
fast	fast pay	fast retribution
Other adjectives: harsh, actual, little, terrible, final, overdue.

When Romeo kicks him out and refuses to pay, his friends fear retribution, and head over to kiss his ass so Anna doesn't kill all of them.

Source: Animation / Roadside Romeo
Disproportionate Retribution: When villagers of a town he saved try to pay him in food instead of riches, Alethrion tries to murder them all.

Source: Western Animation / Tales of Alethrion
Pay Evil unto Evil: Madame Masque burned down the trailer that Kate was safeguarding for a totally innocent lesbian couple, so Kate later went to burn down Masque's mansion in retribution.

Source: Comic Book / Kate Bishop

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