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retaliation

noun/rɪˌtælɪˈeɪʃən/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Adverse treatment of an employee in response to their asserting a protected right or complaint.

His sudden exclusion from meetings looked like retaliation for the grievance he had filed.

Similar: reprisal, victimisation

Topic: Employment law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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