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Definition pretaliation in American English

pretaliation noun

noun
1

responding to an attack before it happens; pre-emptive retaliation

Example

The problem for civilised discourse, though, might be that if everyone's trying to get their pretaliation in first, then all discussions on any topic will begin immediately with a barrage of insult and invective, as on Twitter.

Definition pretaliation in American English