Requital - definition, pronunciation, transcription

Amer. |rɪˈkwaɪtəl|

Brit. |rɪˈkwaɪtəl|

- a justly deserved penalty (syn: retribution)
- an act of requiting; returning in kind (syn: payment)

...the judge ordered the landlord to pay his former tenants $100,000 each as requital for goods lost or damaged in the apartment fire...

...the electrician's requital for the used car was in the form of work on the dealer's house...