Payment and Retribution

Payment

Payment noun - The act of offering money in exchange for goods or services.

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

Nearby Words: pay, paying, payable, payer, payed

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

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

Nearby Word: retributive

fitting	fitting payment	fitting retribution
notable	notable payment	notable retribution
legitimate	legitimate payment	legitimate retribution
proper	proper payment	proper retribution
Other adjectives: fair, actual, personal, immediate, final, greater.

When the citizens of Hamelin deny the piper the payment formerly agreed on, the piper in retribution uses his music to lure the children of Hamelin into a cave which closes forever with them inside.

Source: The Promise
Disproportionate Retribution: Make a late payment on your washing machine?

Source: Western Animation / Not Without My Handbag
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is sometimes shown to take the children away not as Disproportionate Retribution, but to save the children from a corrupt world or from becoming like their parents, who cheated him out of their promised payment.

Source: Alternative Character Interpretation / Other

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