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Vergeltung.

requital; reciprocation; payback (the act of treating someone according to how they treated someone else)

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Meaning & usage

noun/fərˈɡɛltʊŋ//fɛr-/[fɐˈɡɛltʊŋ][fɛɐ̯-]
  1. requital; reciprocation; payback (the act of treating someone according to how they treated someone else) retribution; retaliation (requital for a bad deed)

    especially · feminine
  2. requital; reciprocation; payback (the act of treating someone according to how they treated someone else) reward; recompense (requital for a good deed)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From vergelten (“to requite, reciprocate”) + -ung.

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