One entry found for requital.

Entry Word: requital
Function: noun
Text: 1 payment to another for a loss or injury <the judge ordered the landlord to pay his former tenants $100,000 each as requital for goods lost or damaged in the apartment fire> -- see COMPENSATION 1
2 something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services <the electrician's requital for the used car was in the form of work on the dealer's house> -- see PAYMENT 2
3 the act or an instance of paying back an injury with an injury <"an eye for an eye" is a form of requital that is still legal in some countries> -- see REVENGE